NG41A-1789
ALFVEN WAVE KINETIC DISSIPATION
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Bruce Tsurutani, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Gurbax Singh Lakhina, Indian Institute Geomagnetism, New Panvel (W), Navi, India and Abhijit Sen, Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, India
Abstract:
We will discuss the observational and theoretical parts of interplanetary Alfvén wave properties: 1) their phase steepening, forming Alfvénic turbulence, 2) their dissipation, creating magnetic compressibility and leading to the growth of secondary wave instabilities, and 3) the maintenance of interplanetary helicity. Some new ideas on the source of Alfvén waves will be discussed.
