Solar wind models
Abstract
Our understanding of the solar wind is based upon Parker's description of a thermally driven subsonic - supersonic outflow from a fully ionized electron-proton corona. The basic physical processes of thermally driven solar wind models are discussed. We also study the effect of alpha particles in the corona on the solar wind proton flux, and further discuss the acceleration of the solar wind by Alfvén waves.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(91)90112-W
- Bibcode:
- 1991AdSpR..11a.197L
- Keywords:
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- Electron Scattering;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Waves;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Wind Velocity;
- Astronomical Models;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Proton Flux Density;
- Solar Protons;
- Solar Physics