The properties of small magnetic flux ropes inside the solar wind come from coronal holes, active regions, and quiet Sun

Abstract

The origination and generation mechanisms of small magnetic flux ropes (SFRs), which are important structures in solar wind, are not clearly known. In present study, 1993 SFRs immersed in coronal holes, active regions, and quiet Sun solar wind are analyzed and compared. We find that the properties of SFRs immersed in three types of solar wind are signicantly different. The SFRs are further classifed into hot-SFRs, cold-SFRs, and normal-SFRs, according to whether the O7+/O6+ is 30% elevated or dropped inside SFRs as compared with background solar wind. Our studies show that the parameters of normal-SFRs are similar to background in all three types of solar wind. The properties of hot-SFRs and cold-SFRs seem to be lying in two extremes. Statistically, the hot-SFRs (cold-SFRs) are associated with longer (shorter) duration, lower (higher) speeds and proton temperatures, higher (lower) charge states, helium abundance, and FIP bias as compared with normal-SFRs and background solar wind. The anti-correlations between speed and O7+/O6+ inside hot-SFRs (normal-SFRs) are different from (similar to) those in background solar wind. Most of hot-SFRs and cold-SFRs should come from the Sun. Hot-SFRs may come from streamers associated with plasma blobs and/or small-scale activities on the Sun. Cold-SFRs may be accompanied by small-scale eruptions with lower-temperature materials. Both hot-SFRs and cold-SFRs could also be formed by magnetic erosions of ICMEs that do not contain or contain cold-filament materials. The characteristics of normal-SFRs can be explained reasonably by the two originations, from the Sun and generated in the heliosphere both.

19 pages, 5 figures

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