Volodin, I.D.; Riazantseva, M.O.; Rakhmanova, L.S.; Khokhlachev, A.A.; Yermolaev, Y.I. The Changes in Multiscale Solar Wind Fluctuations on the Path from the Sun to Earth. Universe2024, 10, 186.
Volodin, I.D.; Riazantseva, M.O.; Rakhmanova, L.S.; Khokhlachev, A.A.; Yermolaev, Y.I. The Changes in Multiscale Solar Wind Fluctuations on the Path from the Sun to Earth. Universe 2024, 10, 186.
Volodin, I.D.; Riazantseva, M.O.; Rakhmanova, L.S.; Khokhlachev, A.A.; Yermolaev, Y.I. The Changes in Multiscale Solar Wind Fluctuations on the Path from the Sun to Earth. Universe2024, 10, 186.
Volodin, I.D.; Riazantseva, M.O.; Rakhmanova, L.S.; Khokhlachev, A.A.; Yermolaev, Y.I. The Changes in Multiscale Solar Wind Fluctuations on the Path from the Sun to Earth. Universe 2024, 10, 186.
Abstract
This paper is devoted to the analysis of fluctuations in the solar wind plasma and interplanetary magnetic field parameters observed by Solar Orbiter and WIND spacecraft at different scales, ranging from ~10^3 to 10^7 km. We investigated two long observation intervals when the spacecraft were near the Sun-Earth line, during which the distance between the spacecraft was 0.1 and 0.5 AU respectively. It is analyzed how the fluctuation properties in different types of SW, associated with quasi-stationary and transient solar phenomena, transform on the way from the Sun to the Earth. It is shown that the time series behavior of the bulk speed subject to the least change even at the large distance between the observation points, while the time series of the IMF magnitude, components and proton density were significantly transformed even at the relatively short distance. Regardless of the assumed change in the absolute value of the parameters, the conducted statistical analysis shows that the characteristics of their fluctuations (including the level of intermittency) remains near constant regardless of the distance between the observation points and depends mostly on the type of the solar wind.
Keywords
Solar wind; interplanetary magnetic field; intermittency; multispacecraft observations
Subject
Physical Sciences, Space Science
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