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Distribution of Magnetic Discontinuities in the Solar Wind and in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

  • Authors: Vladimir Zhdankin, Stanislav Boldyrev, and Joanne Mason

Zhdankin, Boldyrev, & Mason 2012 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 760 L22.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Quantity x = (Δ B/ B)  ·  (Δ tt 0) −α has the pdf F( x) that is independent of Δ t, where Δ t 0 ≈ 6.6 × 10 3 s and α ≈ 0.46. The curves shown for Δ t ∈ {1, 4, 16, 64, 256, 1024} · 3 s are all in remarkable agreement with the lognormal distribution of μ = 0 and σ = 1, indicating that Δ B/ B is scale-invariant over the given values of x. For small Δ t, the agreement also extends far beyond the values of x shown, almost up to the cutoff at Δ B/ B = 2.

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