Effects of diverging coronal fields on the solar wind expansion     

H. J. Fahr  H. W. Ripken  M. K. Bird 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1976,43(1):19-33

The expansion of the solar wind in divergent flux tubes is calculated by taking into account a magnetic acceleration of the particles, analogous to the magnetic mirror effect.The resulting force term included in the magnetohydrodynamical equations describes a conversion of thermal into kinetic energy. This causes an additional acceleration of the solar wind plasma which has never been taken into account before. The force is directed opposite to the magnetic field gradient. Consequently, in this case the solar wind velocity increases faster to its asymptotic value than it does for corresponding nonmagnetic solutions. Therefore inside and close to the solar corona markedly higher velocities are found. Compared to strictly hydrodynamical models, the critical point is shifted towards the Sun, and the radial decrease of the ratio of thermal to kinetic energy is faster.The necessary prerequisites for these calculations are (a) that the gyroperoid _g of the plasma particles is much shorter than the Coulomb collision time _c , and (b) that the collision time _c is shorter than the characteristic time _d in which an appreciable amount of thermal anisotropy is built up. Thus it is (a) insured that the particles have established magnetic moments and follow the guiding center approximation, and (b) an almost isotropic velocity distribution function is maintained which, in this first approximation of a purely radial expansion, justifies the use of isotropic pressures and temperatures.Both (a) and (b) are shown to be fulfilled in a region around the Sun out to about 20R , and thermal anisotropies developing outside of this region could explain the observed magnetically aligned anisotropies at 1 AU.  相似文献   

Adiabatic plasma convection in a dipole field: Variation of plasma bulk parameters with L     

S.W.H. Cowley  M. Ashour-Abdalla 《Planetary and Space Science》1975,23(11):1527-1549

We here investigate the motion of particles in a dipole magnetic field under the assumption of conservation of the first two adiabatic invariants. The results are then combined with Liouville's theorem to obtain the variation of the distribution function, and hence the plasma bulk parameters with L-shell. A comparison of the numerical results with recently published analytical approximations is made. Finally, the results are used to describe the structure of the ring current plasma in the outer radiatoin zone, the effects of the Alfvén layers being quantitatively evaluated for a simple electric field model.  相似文献   

The spectral reflectivity of select areas on Europa     

Thomas F. Greene  James R. Vermilon  Richard W. Shorthill  Roger N. Clark 《Icarus》1975,25(3):405-415

The July 12, 1973, occultation of Europa by Io was observed in 30 wavelength channels in the spectral region λλ3200-11, 000 Å with the 200-inch Hale telescope and a multichannel spectrometer. The data are presented in absolute units above the Earth's atmosphere. The data are analyzed to obtain the spectral reflectivity of seven localized areas on the disk of Europa centered on 324°W longitude. The equatorial material is confirmed to be darker than the eastward-skewed bright north polar cap and a hint is evident that the darker material as well may be somewhat redder than the cap material.  相似文献   

Pioneer 10 ultraviolet photometer observations of the Jovian hydrogen torus: The angular distribution     

R.W. Carlson  D.L. Judge 《Icarus》1975,24(4):395-399

The Pioneer 10 ultraviolet photometer observations of the Jovian hydrogen torus are analyzed to obtain the angular distribution. The cloud is asymmetric about Io, where the atoms presumably originate, with the greater density occurring in the trailing portion. A simple model which assumes Jeans escape from the atmosphere of Io is developed and compared to the observations. The results suggest that the exospheric temperature is high (～3000 K) and that the ionization lifetime of the cloud atoms is ～1 × 10⁵ sec.  相似文献   

Evidence for downflow following a coronal transient?     

E. Hildner  W. C. Livingston 《Solar physics》1975,42(2):391-394

On 11 September 1973 a peculiar prominence was observed. The prominence displayed strong ( 50km s^–1) systematic motions toward and away from the observer. The unusual spectrographic appearance of the prominence might have been due to downflowing material lifted into the corona during an earlier coronal transient.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation.  相似文献   

On the structure of filaments from centimeter and millimeter observations     

M. Butz  E. Fürst  W. Hirth  M. R. Kundu 《Solar physics》1975,45(1):125-129

From filament observations at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths it is shown that the transition layer between the dense, cool filamentary material and the ambient hot, rarified corona is rather thin, of the order of some hundred kilometers. Hence, the difference in the sizes of filaments in the radio and optical domains is of the order of 1000 km or 2, thus not detectable by the instruments so far used for observations of filaments.NASINRC Resident Research Associate at NASA-GSFC.  相似文献   

The Composition and Origin of the Connemara Dolomitic Marbles and Ophicalcites, Ireland     

LEAKE  B. E.; TANNER  W. G.; SENIOR  A. 《Journal of Petrology》1975,16(2):237-257

The Connemara ophicalcites and associated marbles contain varyingproportions of calcite, dolomite, tremolitic amphibole, serpentinizedolivine, diopside, humite, phlogopite, clinochlore, and quartz.They formed from a chemically precipitated 'primary' dolomitewith a small amount of mica and clay minerals in which muchof the trace and minor element content of the rock, e.g. Al,Fe, Ti, Zn, Ni, Cr, Zr, K, Rb, and rare earths was concentrated.The rock was probably silicified after deposition, possiblyduring metamorphism, and was probably not deposited with majoradmixed detrital quartz or feldspar. The formation during metamorphismof complementary segregated layers rich in either olivine (Fo_98±2)or calcite resulted from important chemical changes controlledby the composition of the stable metamorphic minerals, i.e.those for which solution concentrations exceeded the solubilityproduct for the pore fluid. The mineralogy influenced the localconcentrations of both major and trace elements and emphasizesthe importance of solutions and the stable metamorphic mineralogyin manipulating the composition of some metamorphic rocks. Somecriteria for recognizing segregated layers in metamorphic rocksare given. Serpentinization was probably by addition of water and silicaand not by movement of Fe or Mg. Chemical analyses of forty-threesamples each for twenty-six oxides and elements are given andthe first occurrence of humite in Connemara is reported.  相似文献   

On the nature of some active regions in the microwave range     

M. Felli  G. Tofani  E. Fürst  W. Hirth 《Solar physics》1975,42(2):377-390

The radio emission of a selected number of solar active regions has been investigated with high angular resolution at two frequencies: 10 and 17 GHz. By comparing the results of the two observations the following conclusions can be drawn:

1. The brightness temperature distribution of an active region is often composed of very bright cores of small dimension (angular extent θ?20″) imbedded in extended halos of lower brightness.
2. The radio emission of such structures as well as the degree of polarization can be explained with a thermal process. The halos can originate by pure thermal bremsstrahlung while in the case of the very bright cores found at 10 GHz (brightness temperature T _b?1–9 × 10⁶K) the emission at the harmonics of the gyrofrequency is needed.

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Solar-interplanetary modeling: 3-D solar wind solutions in prescribed non-radial magnetic field geometries     

B. R. Durney  G. W. Pneuman 《Solar physics》1975,40(2):461-486

A model is presented which describes the 3-dimensional non-radial solar wind expansion between the Sun and the Earth in a specified magnetic field configuration subject to synoptically observed plasma properties at the coronal base. In this paper, the field is taken to be potential in the inner corona based upon the Mt. Wilson magnetograph observations and radial beyond a certain chosen surface. For plasma boundary conditions at the Sun, we use deconvoluted density profiles obtained from synopticK-coronameter brightness observations. The temperature is taken to be 2 × 10⁶ K at the base of closed field lines and 1.6 x 10⁶K at the base of open field lines. For a sample calculation, we employ data taken during the period of the 12 November 1966 eclipse. Although qualitative agreement with observations at 1 AU is obtained, important discrepancies emerge which are not apparent from spherically symmetric models or those models which do not incorporate actual observations in the lower corona. These discrepancies appear to be due to two primary difficulties - the rapid geometric divergence of the open field lines in the inner corona as well as the breakdown in the validity of the Spitzer heat conduction formula even closer to the Sun than predicted by radial flow models. These two effects combine to produce conductively dominated solutions and lower velocities, densities, and field strengths at the Earth than those observed. The traditional difficulty in solar wind theory in that unrealistically small densities must be assumed at the coronal base in order to obtain observed densities at 1 AU is more than compensated for here by the rapid divergence of field lines in the inner corona. For these base conditions, the value ofβ(ratio of gas pressure to magnetic pressure) is shown to be significantly greater than one over most of the lower corona - suggesting that, for the coronal boundary conditions used here, the use of a potential or force-free magnetic field configuration may not be justified. The calculations of this paper point to the directions where future research on solar-interplanetary modelling should receive priority:

1. better models for the coronal magnetic field structure
2. improved understanding of the thermal conductivity relevant for the solar wind plasma.

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Point-connected rigid bodies in a topological tree     

Peter W. Likins 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1975,11(3):301-317

Identical equations of motion are shown to emerge for a system ofn+1 rigid bodies all interconnected byn points, each of which is common to two bodies, by means of each of the following derivation procedures, all of which employ a kinematical identity developed by Hooker and Margulies: The Hooker-Margulies/Hooker equations; Kane's quasicoordinate formulation of D'Alembert's principle; the combination of Lagrange's generalized coordinate equations and Lagrange's quasicoordinate equations; and the combination of Lagrange's generalized coordinate equations and the vector rotational equationM=H applied to the total system and resolved into a vector basis fixed in a reference body of the system. Thus the previously published Hooker-Margulies/Hooker equations are shown to be the natural result of several derivation procedures other than the Newton-Euler method originally used, provided that the central kinematical identity of the original derivation of Hooker and Margulies is employed.  相似文献