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Effect of intermittent structures on the spectral index of the magnetic field in the slow solar wind
School of Space and Environment, Beihang University,
Beijing 100083, China
Key Laboratory of Space Environment Monitoring and Information Processing, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing 100804, China
Xuanhao Fan
School of Space and Environment, Beihang University,
Beijing 100083, China
Yuxin Wang
School of Space and Environment, Beihang University,
Beijing 100083, China
Honghong Wu
School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan
430072, China
Lei Zhang
Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology,
Beijing 100094, China
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Scaling laws and energy spectra for the electric field, magnetic field, flow velocity, and density are theoretically derived for small-scale turbulence in space plasma on which the electrons behave as a fluid but the ions more as individual particles due to the difference in the mass (the Hall effect). Our theoretical model offers an explanation for the small-scale turbulence spectra measured in near-Earth space.
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Occasional deviations in density and magnetic power spectral densities in an intermediate frequency range are interpreted as an ion-inertial-range response to either the Kolmogorov or Iroshnikov–Kraichnan inertial-range turbulent velocity spectrum.
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https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac4701, 2022. a
Short summary
We show, for the first time, an analytical relationship between the intermittency level and the magnetic spectral index in the slow-solar-wind turbulence. Our results supply an observational basis for numerical and theoretical studies of the intermittent turbulence. These results will also help to obtain more information on the contributions of the intermittent structures to the power spectra as well as on the physical nature of the energy cascade taking place in the solar wind.
We show, for the first time, an analytical relationship between the intermittency level and the...
