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Principais autores: Wu, Honghong, He, Jiansen, Yang, Liping, Wang, Xin, Huang, Shiyong, Yuan, Zhigang
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Publicado em: 2022
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author Wu, Honghong
He, Jiansen
Yang, Liping
Wang, Xin
Huang, Shiyong
Yuan, Zhigang
author_facet Wu, Honghong
He, Jiansen
Yang, Liping
Wang, Xin
Huang, Shiyong
Yuan, Zhigang
contents Intermittency and anisotropy are two important aspects of plasma turbulence, which the solar wind provides a natural laboratory to investigate. However, their forms and nature are still under debate, making it difficult to achieve a consensus in the theoretical interpretation. Here, we perform higher-order statistics for the observations in the fast solar wind at 1.48 au obtained by Ulysses and in the slow solar wind at 0.17 au obtained by Parker Solar Probe (PSP). We find that two subranges clearly exist in the inertial range and they present distinct features with regard to the intermittency and anisotropy. The subrange 1 with smaller scale has a multifractal scaling with the second index $ξ(2) \sim 2/3$ and the subrange 2 with larger scale is also multifractal but with $ξ(2) \sim 1/2$. The break between two subranges locates at the same spatial scale for both Ulysses and PSP observations. Subrange 1 is multifractal in the direction perpendicular to the local magnetic field with $ξ_{\perp}(2) \sim 2/3$ and seems to be monoscaling in the parallel direction with $ξ_{\parallel}(2) \sim 1$. Subrange 2 is multifractal in both parallel and perpendicular directions with $ξ_{\perp}(2) \sim 1/2$ and $ξ_{\parallel}(2) \sim 2/3$. Both subrange 1 and subrange 2 present power and wavevector anisotropies. The distinct features of two subranges suggest that a transition from weak to strong turbulence may occur and the spatial scale of the break may not evolve with the solar wind expansion. These new results update our knowledge of the inertial range and provide strong observational constraints on the understanding of intermittency and anisotropy in solar wind turbulence.
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spellingShingle On the scaling and anisotropy of two subranges in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence
Wu, Honghong
He, Jiansen
Yang, Liping
Wang, Xin
Huang, Shiyong
Yuan, Zhigang
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Plasma Physics
Space Physics
Intermittency and anisotropy are two important aspects of plasma turbulence, which the solar wind provides a natural laboratory to investigate. However, their forms and nature are still under debate, making it difficult to achieve a consensus in the theoretical interpretation. Here, we perform higher-order statistics for the observations in the fast solar wind at 1.48 au obtained by Ulysses and in the slow solar wind at 0.17 au obtained by Parker Solar Probe (PSP). We find that two subranges clearly exist in the inertial range and they present distinct features with regard to the intermittency and anisotropy. The subrange 1 with smaller scale has a multifractal scaling with the second index $ξ(2) \sim 2/3$ and the subrange 2 with larger scale is also multifractal but with $ξ(2) \sim 1/2$. The break between two subranges locates at the same spatial scale for both Ulysses and PSP observations. Subrange 1 is multifractal in the direction perpendicular to the local magnetic field with $ξ_{\perp}(2) \sim 2/3$ and seems to be monoscaling in the parallel direction with $ξ_{\parallel}(2) \sim 1$. Subrange 2 is multifractal in both parallel and perpendicular directions with $ξ_{\perp}(2) \sim 1/2$ and $ξ_{\parallel}(2) \sim 2/3$. Both subrange 1 and subrange 2 present power and wavevector anisotropies. The distinct features of two subranges suggest that a transition from weak to strong turbulence may occur and the spatial scale of the break may not evolve with the solar wind expansion. These new results update our knowledge of the inertial range and provide strong observational constraints on the understanding of intermittency and anisotropy in solar wind turbulence.
title On the scaling and anisotropy of two subranges in the inertial range of solar wind turbulence
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Plasma Physics
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12409