• Login
     
    View Item 
    •   ORFEO Home
    • Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
    • BIRA-IASB publications
    • View Item
    •   ORFEO Home
    • Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
    • BIRA-IASB publications
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Electron Heat Flux Instabilities in the Inner Heliosphere: Radial Distribution and Implication on the Evolution of the Electron Velocity Distribution Function

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    SunH(2021a).pdf (1.192Mb)
    Authors
    Sun, H.
    Zhao, J.
    Liu, W.
    Voitenko, Y.
    Pierrard, V.
    Shi, C.
    Yao, Y.
    Xie, H.
    Wu, D.
    Show allShow less
    Discipline
    Physical sciences
    Subject
    Plasma astrophysics
    Space plasmas
    Solar wind
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2021
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Description
    This Letter investigates the electron heat flux instability using the radial models of the magnetic field and plasma parameters in the inner heliosphere. Our results show that both the electron acoustic wave and the oblique whistler wave are unstable in the regime with large relative drift speed (ΔVe) between electron beam and core populations. Landau-resonant interactions of electron acoustic waves increase the electron parallel temperature that would lead to suppressing the electron acoustic instability and amplifying the growth of oblique whistler waves. Therefore, we propose that the electron heat flux can effectively drive oblique whistler waves in an anisotropic electron velocity distribution function. This study also finds that lower-hybrid waves and oblique Alfvén waves can be triggered in the solar atmosphere, and that the former instability is much stronger than the latter. Moreover, we clarify that the excitation of lower-hybrid waves mainly results from the transit-time interaction of beaming electrons with resonant velocities v∥ ~ ω/k∥, where ω and k∥ are the wave frequency and parallel wavenumber, respectively. In addition, this study shows that the instability of quasi-parallel whistler waves can dominate the regime with medium ΔVe at the heliocentric distance nearly larger than 10 times of the solar radius.
    Citation
    Sun, H.; Zhao, J.; Liu, W.; Voitenko, Y.; Pierrard, V.; Shi, C.; Yao, Y.; Xie, H.; Wu, D. (2021). Electron Heat Flux Instabilities in the Inner Heliosphere: Radial Distribution and Implication on the Evolution of the Electron Velocity Distribution Function. , The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 916, Issue 1, L4, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac0f02.
    Identifiers
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/7939
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac0f02
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
    Links
    NewsHelpdeskBELSPO OA Policy

    Browse

    All of ORFEOCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesDisciplinesThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesDisciplines
     

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2016  DuraSpace
    Send Feedback | Cookie Information
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV