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Empirical Constraints on Proton and Electron Heating in the Fast Solar Wind

  • Authors: Steven R. Cranmer, William H. Matthaeus, Benjamin A. Breech, and Justin C. Kasper

CRANMER et al. 2009 The Astrophysical Journal 702 1604.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Ratios of the proton heating rate to the total (proton + electron) heating rate. The standard model with wind speed u = 700 km s −1 is shown in both panels (thick red line). (a) Variation of the wind speed between 600 and 800 km s −1 in 50 km s −1 increments (see labels). (b) Models computed with T small (dotted line) and T large (dashed line) for the SWOOPS proton temperatures, and with Equation (7) for q ∥, e instead of the empirical fit (dot-dashed line).

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