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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 915, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abfdbc
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- NASA's Living with a Star (LWS) program [NNN06AA01C]
- LWS management and technical team
- NINS program for cross-disciplinary study on Turbulence, Transport, and Heating Dynamics in Laboratory and Solar/Astrophysical Plasmas: SoLaBo-X [01321802, 01311904]
- NASA [NNN06AA01C, NNX17AI18G, 80NSSC19K0829]
The study investigated the magnetic switchbacks observed by the Parker Solar Probe, indicating that they may arise from Alfven wave turbulence and grow in amplitude as they propagate away from the Sun. This suggests that the observed switchbacks are a natural consequence of spherically polarized Alfven waves.
One of the most important early results from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is the ubiquitous presence of magnetic switchbacks, whose origin is under debate. Using a three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of the equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamics from the corona to 40 solar radii, we investigate whether magnetic switchbacks emerge from granulation-driven Alfven waves and turbulence in the solar wind. The simulated solar wind is an Alfvenic slow-solar-wind stream with a radial profile consistent with various observations, including observations from PSP. As a natural consequence of Alfven-wave turbulence, the simulation reproduced magnetic switchbacks with many of the same properties as observed switchbacks, including Alfvenic v-b correlation, spherical polarization (low magnetic compressibility), and a volume filling fraction that increases with radial distance. The analysis of propagation speed and scale length shows that the magnetic switchbacks are large-amplitude (nonlinear) Alfven waves with discontinuities in the magnetic-field direction. We directly compare our simulation with observations using a virtual flyby of PSP in our simulation domain. We conclude that at least some of the switchbacks observed by PSP are a natural consequence of the growth in amplitude of spherically polarized Alfven waves as they propagate away from the Sun.
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