2 papers
astro-ph.SR2024
Acceleration of the Solar Wind by Ambipolar Electric Field
Viviane Pierrard, Maximilien Peters de Bonhome
Kinetic exospheric models revealed that the solar wind is accelerated by an ambipolar electric field up to supersonic velocities. The presence of suprathermal Strahl electrons at t…
astro-ph.SR2014
Collisionless transport equations derived from a kinetic exospheric solar wind model with kappa velocity distribution functions
Gabriel Voitcu, Viviane Pierrard, Herve Lamy +2
In this paper we discuss the collisionless transport equations, continuity, momentum and energy conservation, derived from a kinetic exospheric model of the solar wind based on a k…