SH51B-4162:
Oblique Alfvén Solitons and Inverse Scattering Theory
Friday, 19 December 2014
Harry Raphael Wheeler IV, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Mark Anthony Reynolds, Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ, Daytona Beach, FL, United States and Robert Hamilton, George Fox University, Newberg, OR, United States
Abstract:
Solitary wave structures observed by the Ulysses spacecraft in the solar wind were analyzed using both inverse scattering theory as well as direct numerical integration of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equation. Several of these structures were found to be consistent with soliton solutions of the DNLS equation. Such solitary structures have been commonly observed in the space plasma environment and may, in fact, be long-lived solitons. While the generation of these solitons may be due to an instability mechanism, e.g., the mirror instability, they may be observable far from the source region due to their coherent nature.
