TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhanced Energy Transfer Rate in Solar Wind Turbulence Observed near the Sun from Parker Solar Probe
AU - Bandyopadhyay, Riddhi
AU - Goldstein, M. L.
AU - Maruca, B. A.
AU - Matthaeus, W. H.
AU - Parashar, T. N.
AU - Ruffolo, D.
AU - Chhiber, R.
AU - Usmanov, A.
AU - Chasapis, A.
AU - Qudsi, R.
AU - Bale, Stuart D.
AU - Bonnell, J. W.
AU - Dudok De Wit, Thierry
AU - Goetz, Keith
AU - Harvey, Peter R.
AU - MacDowall, Robert J.
AU - Malaspina, David M.
AU - Pulupa, Marc
AU - Kasper, J. C.
AU - Korreck, K. E.
AU - Case, A. W.
AU - Stevens, M.
AU - Whittlesey, P.
AU - Larson, D.
AU - Livi, R.
AU - Klein, K. G.
AU - Velli, M.
AU - Raouafi, N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
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PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Direct evidence of an inertial-range turbulent energy cascade has been provided by spacecraft observations in heliospheric plasmas. In the solar wind, the average value of the derived heating rate near 1 au is ∼103 Jkg-1s-1, an amount sufficient to account for observed departures from adiabatic expansion. Parker Solar Probe, even during its first solar encounter, offers the first opportunity to compute, in a similar fashion, a fluid-scale energy decay rate, much closer to the solar corona than any prior in situ observations. Using the Politano-Pouquet third-order law and the von Kármán decay law, we estimate the fluid-range energy transfer rate in the inner heliosphere, at heliocentric distance R ranging from 54 R o˙ (0.25 au) to 36 R o˙ (0.17 au). The energy transfer rate obtained near the first perihelion is about 100 times higher than the average value at 1 au, which is in agreement with estimates based on a heliospheric turbulence transport model. This dramatic increase in the heating rate is unprecedented in previous solar wind observations, including those from Helios, and the values are close to those obtained in the shocked plasma inside the terrestrial magnetosheath.
AB - Direct evidence of an inertial-range turbulent energy cascade has been provided by spacecraft observations in heliospheric plasmas. In the solar wind, the average value of the derived heating rate near 1 au is ∼103 Jkg-1s-1, an amount sufficient to account for observed departures from adiabatic expansion. Parker Solar Probe, even during its first solar encounter, offers the first opportunity to compute, in a similar fashion, a fluid-scale energy decay rate, much closer to the solar corona than any prior in situ observations. Using the Politano-Pouquet third-order law and the von Kármán decay law, we estimate the fluid-range energy transfer rate in the inner heliosphere, at heliocentric distance R ranging from 54 R o˙ (0.25 au) to 36 R o˙ (0.17 au). The energy transfer rate obtained near the first perihelion is about 100 times higher than the average value at 1 au, which is in agreement with estimates based on a heliospheric turbulence transport model. This dramatic increase in the heating rate is unprecedented in previous solar wind observations, including those from Helios, and the values are close to those obtained in the shocked plasma inside the terrestrial magnetosheath.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4365/ab5dae
DO - 10.3847/1538-4365/ab5dae
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087356695
VL - 246
JO - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
JF - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
SN - 0067-0049
IS - 2
M1 - 48
ER -