Turbulence-driven Solar Wind Heating and Energization of Pickup Protons in the Outer Heliosphere

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 623; no. 1; pp. 502 - 510
• Main Author: Isenberg, Philip A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago, IL IOP Publishing 10.04.2005; University of Chicago Press
• Subjects: Heliosphere; Protons; Turbulence; Solar wind

We improve and extend the "dominant turbulence" model of Isenberg et al., which describes the turbulent heating of the distant solar wind by the dissipation of wave energy generated by the isotropization of interstellar pickup protons. We first modify some of the detailed expressions in Is...