Observations of heating along intermittent structures in the inner heliosphere from PSP data
Abstract
The solar wind proton temperature at 1-au has been found to be correlated with small-scale intermittent magnetic structures, i.e., regions with enhanced temperature are associated with coherent structures such as current sheets. Using Parker Solar Probe data from the first encounter, we study this association using measurements of radial proton temperature, employing the Partial Variance of Increments (PVI) technique to identify intermittent magnetic structures. We observe that the probability density functions of high-PVI events have higher median temperatures than those with lower PVI, The regions in space where PVI peaks were also locations that had enhanced temperatures when compared with similar regions suggesting a heating mechanism in the young solar wind that is associated with intermittency developed by a nonlinear turbulent cascade.n the immediate vicinity.
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@article{arxiv.1912.05483,
title = {Observations of heating along intermittent structures in the inner heliosphere from PSP data},
author = {R. A. Qudsi and B. A. Maruca and W. H. Matthaeus and T. N. Parashar and Riddhi Bandyopadhyay and R. Chhiber and A. Chasapis and Melvyn L. Goldstein and S. D. Bale and J. W. Bonnell and T. Dudok de Wit and K. Goetz and P. R. Harvey and R. J. MacDowall and D. Malaspina and M. Pulupa and J. C. Kasper and K. E. Korreck and A. W. Case and M. Stevens and P. Whittlesey and D. Larson and R. Livi and M. Velli and N. Raouafi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05483},
year = {2020}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures, part of ApJ special issue for PSP