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UNSPECIFIED (2005) Compressibility in solar wind plasma turbulence. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 94 (20). -. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.204502 ISSN 0031-9007.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.204502
Abstract
Incompressible magnetohydrodynamics is often assumed to describe solar wind turbulence. We use extended self-similarity to reveal scaling in the structure functions of density fluctuations in the solar wind. The obtained scaling is then compared with that found in the inertial range of quantities identified as passive scalars in other turbulent systems. We find that these are not coincident. This implies that either solar wind turbulence is compressible or that straightforward comparison of structure functions does not adequately capture its inertial range properties.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | ||||
Publisher: | AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC | ||||
ISSN: | 0031-9007 | ||||
Official Date: | 27 May 2005 | ||||
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Volume: | 94 | ||||
Number: | 20 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 4 | ||||
Page Range: | - | ||||
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.204502 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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