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    Solar Wind Kappa Exospheric Model Constrained by PSP

    Authors
    Pierrard, V.
    Bonhome, M.P.D.
    Halekas, J.
    Audoor, C.
    Whittlesey, P.
    Livi, R.
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    Discipline
    Physical sciences
    Subject
    solar wind
    exospheric models
    regularized kappa
    Parker Solar Probe
    suprathermal electrons
    velocity distributions
    acceleration
    solar corona
    space plasmas
    Audience
    General Public
    Date
    2023
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    Description
    The new observations of Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter are used to constrain and compare with the exospheric model of the solar wind. The observations at low radial distances show suprathermal electrons already well present in the Strahl in the antisunward direction and a deficit in the sunward direction, confirming the exospheric feature of almost no incoming particles. The presence of suprathermal Strahl electrons at the exobase increases the velocity to higher values, as well as a low exobase, because that increases the electric potential acccelerating the wind. That causes a clear difference between the slow wind and the higher speed wind originating from low density solar corona. The kinetic exospheric model of the solar wind is also improved by considering regularized Kappa distributions that have no diverging moments through consideration of a cut-off at relativistic velocities. The model becomes valid even for kappa indices lower than 2, which is important since low values of kappa are observed in the fast solar wind.
    Citation
    Pierrard, V.; Bonhome, M.P.D.; Halekas, J.; Audoor, C.; Whittlesey, P.; Livi, R. (2023). Solar Wind Kappa Exospheric Model Constrained by PSP. , Encyclopedia,
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/11150
    url: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/932
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    No
    Language
    eng
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