In:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Vol. 104, No. A9 ( 1999-09), p. 19843-19849
Abstract:
Solar wind electrons are often observed to consist of two distinguishable components, a thermal, more dense core and a suprathermal, less dense halo. In this core/halo model linear Vlasov theory for the whistler heat flux instability predicts dimensionless heat flux thresholds which decrease as the electron core beta, , increases. It has been proposed that this theoretical threshold corresponds to an observable upper bound on the electron heat flux. Linear theory also predicts that there is a critical value of below which the whistler heat flux instability does not have appreciable growth in the solar wind; there is another suggestion that this corresponds to an observable lower bound on . These two proposals are examined by comparison of linear theory and data from the initial in‐ecliptic phase of the Ulysses mission. The instability threshold does provide a statistical constraint on observed solar wind heat fluxes, and the critical of theory is not inconsistent with a statistical lower bound on the observations of that parameter.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0148-0227
DOI:
10.1029/1999JA900244
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Publication Date:
1999
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