Constraining Low-Frequency Alfvenic Turbulence in the Solar Wind Using Density Fluctuation Measurements

Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, Gregory G. Howes +2

One proposed mechanism for heating the solar wind, from close to the sun to beyond 10 AU, invokes low-frequency, oblique, Alfven-wave turbulence. Because small-scale oblique Alfven…