Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pierrard, Viviane

Titel

Solar Wind Electron Transport: Interplanetary Electric Field and Heat Conduction

Ist Teil von

• Space science reviews, 2012-11, Vol.172 (1-4), p.315-324

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The presence of suprathermal electrons has important consequences on the acceleration process of the solar wind: they increase the electrostatic potential between the corona and the interplanetary space and accelerate of the solar wind to high bulk velocities. Moreover, they modify the heat conduction and can explain the sharp increase of the temperature in the solar corona. These consequences are well evidenced in the kinetic approach where no closure requires the distributions to be nearly Maxwellians.