Tearing Instability and Periodic Density Perturbations in the Slow Solar Wind
Authors: Victor Réville, Marco Velli, Alexis P. Rouillard, Benoit Lavraud, Anna Tenerani, Chen Shi, and Antoine Strugarek
2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters895L20.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 4.
Top panel: fastest growing mode km as a function of the Lundquist number S. The asymptotic regime km ∝ S1/6 is shown by the black dashed line. The corresponding growth rate, normalized by tA = L/vA, is shown in the bottom panel.