Generation of MHD turbulence by non-equilibrium ion velocity distributions in the outer heliosphere and the interstellar medium: magnetohydro-thermodynamic and kinetic views
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Abstract We show that energetic ions, appearing in plasmas due to injection of charge-exchange-induced new ions into the magnetized plasma background, flow due to their freely convertible energy drive turbulences of Alfvenic and magneto-acoustic types. This becomes important especially under conditions of strongly charge-exchanging fluids with supersonic differential bulk velocities, as is the condition in the inner heliosphere. These ion-driven waves lead to strongly enhanced fluctuation amplitudes. As a consequence, both low- and high-energy ion populations can partly reabsorb these wave energies, and thereby experience non-thermal heatings. As a quantitative example, we calculate the non-adiabatic behaviours of solar wind ions and pick-up ions expanding with the solar wind towards large solar distances. While pick-up ions behave nearly isothermal, normal solar wind ions behave pseudo-polytropically with negative effective polytropic indices that describe temperature increases at diverging plasma flows....
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Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions (AApTr) journal is being published jointly by the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society and Cambridge Scientific Publishers, The journal provides a forum for the rapid publication of material from all modern and classical fields of astronomy and astrophysics, as well as material concerned with astronomical instrumentation and related fundamental sciences. It includes both theoretical and experimental original research papers, short communications, review papers and conference reports.