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Podgorny, I.M. and Podgorny, A.I. (2005). Expansion of solar corona in the Sun's gravitational field and formation of the heliospheric current sheet. International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy 6: doi: 10.1029/2004GI000077. issn: 1524-4423. |
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<1>¿¿Taking into account gravitation and the temperature gradient, three-dimensional MHD simulation of solar corona expansion in a dipole magnetic field was performed. Dissipation, compressibility, and anisotropy of thermal conductivity were taken into consideration. For calculations, the PERESVET code was used. It was been shown that a heliospheric current sheet having a normal component of magnetic field is formed. An important result is that the establishment of the stationary plasma outflow has been found to be extremely sensitive to the corona plasma parameters. For typical corona parameters, the flow becomes supersonic at a distance of more than three solar radii. |
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Keywords
Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Corona, Space Plasma Physics, Kinetic and MHD theory, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Magnetic fields, Solar corona, Heliospheric current sheet, Supersonic plasma outflow |
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Journal
International Journal of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy |
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Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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