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Stawicki et al. 2002
Stawicki, O., Lerche, I. and Fichtner, H. (2002). On the transport of pick-up ions in the heliosphere: A compendium of new analytical solutions. Journal of Geophysical Research 107: doi: 10.1029/2001JA009222. issn: 0148-0227.

We present new solutions of the pitch-angle-averaged transport equation of pick-up ions in the heliosphere. These solutions supplement those available so far for the case of a vanishing momentum diffusion. A general solution is derived for nonvanishing momentum diffusion. This solution, which is valid for a simple spatial power law behavior of the solar wind plasma and for arbitrary source functions, is applied to the stochastic acceleration of pick-up ions and generalizes earlier solutions. Based on this, we present several asymptotic phase space integrals for the outer heliosphere and solve them analytically for a standard pick-up ion source function. Numerical calculations for interstellar neutral hydrogen yield phase space distributions depending sensitively on the underlying turbulence and its dependence on heliocentric distance.

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Interplanetary Physics, Plasma waves and turbulence, Space Plasma Physics, Wave/particle interactions, Space Plasma Physics, Transport processes
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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