Suprathermal Kappa populations in the solar wind: From observational evidences to realistic modeling
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Discipline
Physical sciences
Subject
Free energy
Solar wind
Kappa distribution
Kinetic instability
Plasma state
Realistic model
Space plasma physics
Temperature anisotropy instability
Thermal equilibriums
Plasma diagnostics
Audience
Scientific
Date
2016Metadata
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Suprathermal populations are ubiquitous in the solar wind, indicating plasma states out of thermal equilibrium, and an excess of free energy expected to enhance the kinetic instabilities. The generally accepted representation of Kappa distributions usually invoked to describe these populations in space plasma physics allows for two different alternatives, namely assuming the temperature either dependent or independent on the k-index of the distribution. Here we demonstrate that only a k-dependent temperature confirms the expectations providing a systematic stimulation of the temperature anisotropy instabilities, and present observational evidences in the favor of this approach.
Citation
Lazar, M.; Poedts, S.; Fichtner, H.; Pierrard, V.; Yoon, P.H. (2016). Suprathermal Kappa populations in the solar wind: From observational evidences to realistic modeling. (Mantica, P., Ed.), EPS 2016 43rd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Vol. 40A, 457-460,Identifiers
isbn: 978-1-5108-2947-3
scopus: 2-s2.0-85013988183
Type
Conference
Peer-Review
No
Language
eng