Solar Wind Turbulence at Kinetic Scales in the inner Heliosphere
- 1Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, Meudon, France (olga.alexandrova@obspm.fr)
- 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
- 3GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, University of Potsdam, Germany
We study magnetic fluctuations at sub-ion scales and down to sub-electron scales using Helios/SCM measurements in the inner Heliosphere and Cluster/STAFF data at the Earth's orbit. Using these data we test the generality of the kinetic spectrum and we show that it follows the ~k-8/3exp(-kld) law at different radial distances from the Sun (k being a wavenumber). We show as well that the dissipation scale ld correlates well with the electron Larmor radius ρe at 0.3 AU and at 1 AU. Then, in the time domain, at 1 AU, using the wavelet transform, we study the nature of magnetic fluctuations, which form the kinetic spectrum. It appears, that the spectrum is dominated by non-linear coherent structures in the form of magnetic vortices with the smallest resolved scale of the order of ρe. Finally, we comparer our results with measurements of the Parker Solar Probe/FIELDS and, hopefully, of the Solar Orbiter/RPW in the inner Heliosphere.
How to cite: Alexandrova, O., Jagarlamudi, V., Maksimovic, M., Hellinger, P., Shprits, Y., and Mangeney, A.: Solar Wind Turbulence at Kinetic Scales in the inner Heliosphere, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-18486, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18486, 2020