Anisotropy in fast and slow solar wind fluctuations

Using 5 years of spacecraft data from near Earth orbit, we investigate the correlation anisotropy of solar wind magnetohydrodynamic-scale fluctuations and show that the nature of the anisotropy differs in fast (>500 km s -1) and slow (<400 km s-1) streams. In particular, fast streams a...

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Publicado: 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_0004637X_v635_n2II_pL181_Dasso
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_0004637X_v635_n2II_pL181_Dasso
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Sumario:Using 5 years of spacecraft data from near Earth orbit, we investigate the correlation anisotropy of solar wind magnetohydrodynamic-scale fluctuations and show that the nature of the anisotropy differs in fast (>500 km s -1) and slow (<400 km s-1) streams. In particular, fast streams are relatively more dominated by fluctuations with wavevectors quasi-parallel to the local magnetic field, while slow streams, which appear to be more fully evolved turbulence, are more dominated by quasi-perpendicular fluctuation wavevectors. © 2005. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.