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Anisotropic Magnetic Turbulence in the Inner Heliosphere-Radial Evolution of Distributions Observed by Parker Solar Probe


AuthorChhiber, Rohit;
KeywordsParker Data Used; Solar wind; interplanetary magnetic fields; interplanetary turbulence; 1534; 824; 830; Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics; Physics - Plasma Physics; Physics - Space Physics
AbstractObservations from Parker Solar Probe s first five orbits are used to investigate the helioradial evolution of probability density functions (pdfs) of fluctuations of magnetic-field components between \raisebox-0.5ex\textasciitilde28 and 200 R $_\ensuremath\odot$. Transformation of the magnetic-field vector to a local mean-field coordinate system permits examination of anisotropy relative to the mean magnetic-field direction. Attention is given to effects of averaging-interval size. It is found that pdfs of the perpendicular fluctuations are well approximated by a Gaussian function, with the parallel fluctuations less so: kurtoses of the latter are generally larger than 10, and their pdfs indicate increasing skewness with decreasing distance r from the Sun, with the latter observation possibly explained by the increasing Alfv\ enicity of the fluctuations. The ratio of perpendicular to parallel variances is greater than unity; this variance anisotropy becomes stronger with decreasing r. The ratio of the total rms fluctuation strength to the mean-field magnitude decreases with decreasing r, with a value \raisebox-0.5ex\textasciitilde0.8 near 1 au and \raisebox-0.5ex\textasciitilde0.5 at 0.14 au; the ratio is well approximated by an r $^1/4$ power law. These findings improve our understanding of the radial evolution of turbulence in the solar wind, and have implications for related phenomena such as energetic-particle transport in the inner heliosphere.
Year of Publication2022
Journal\apj
Volume939
Number of Pages33
Section
Date Publishednov
ISBN
URL
DOI10.3847/1538-4357/ac9386