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Burlaga & F.-Viñas 2004
Burlaga, L.F. and F.-Viñas, A. (2004). Multi-scale probability distributions of solar wind speed fluctuations at 1 AU described by a generalized Tsallis distribution. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL020715. issn: 0094-8276.

The probability distributions of changes in the solar speed observed at 1 AU by ACE during 1999 on scales from 1 hour to 171 days and at a scale of 64 sec can be described by a single distribution function. The function is a simple generalization of the Tsallis q-distribution, a probability distribution that was derived from nonextensive statistical mechanics. The fluctuations in speed are related to (1) intermittent turbulence and shocks on the smallest scales; (2) ejecta, corotating streams, slow flows, interaction regions, etc. on intermediate scales; and (3) systems of interacting flows involving all of these features, on scales greater than the solar rotation period.

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Keywords
Interplanetary Physics, Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds, Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary shocks, Interplanetary Physics, MHD waves and turbulence, Interplanetary Physics, Solar wind plasma
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Geophysical Research Letters
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