Identification of Magnetic Flux Ropes from Parker Solar Probe Observations during the First Encounter
arXiv:1912.02349 · doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab4ff1
Abstract
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observed an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) event during its first orbit around the sun, among many other events. This event is analyzed by applying a wavelet analysis technique to obtain the reduced magnetic helicity, cross helicity, and residual energy, the first two of which are magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) invariants. Our results show that the ICME, as a large scale magnetic flux rope, possesses high magnetic helicity, very low cross helicity, and highly negative residual energy, thus pointing to a magnetic fluctuation dominated structure. Using the same technique, we also search for small-scale coherent magnetic flux rope structures during the period from 2018/10/22--2018/11/21, which are intrinsic to quasi-2D MHD turbulence in the solar wind. Multiple structures with duration between 8 and 300 minutes are identified from PSP in-situ spacecraft measurements. The location and scales of these structures are characterized by wavelet spectrograms of the normalized reduced magnetic helicity, normalized cross helicity and normalized residual energy. Transport theory suggests that these small-scale magnetic flux ropes may contribute to the acceleration of charged particles through magnetic reconnection processes, and the dissipation of these structures may be important for understanding the coronal heating processes.
22 pages, 5 figures, accepted in ApJS
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