Alfvén Waves in the Solar Wind
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 11 (3) , 563-568
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1691953
Abstract
Mariner II plasma and magnetic-field data are examined for explicit examples of low-frequency hydromagnetic waves. From the magnetic-field data, several sinusoidal waveforms are isolated. One of these clearly satisfies the hydromagnetic equations relating the magnetic-field variation to the ion-velocity perturbation for an Alfvén wave. This result is consistent with Barnes' theoretical prediction that only the Alfvén mode is not strongly damped in a plasma of moderate or high β.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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