Ulysses electron distributions fitted with Kappa functions
Geophysical Research Letters1997Vol. 24(9), pp. 1151–1154
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Abstract
We fit Kappa functions to 16,000 velocity distribution functions measured in the solar wind by the electron plasma instrument on board Ulysses. Statistically, the electron distributions are observed to have important high velocity tails in the fast solar wind but are closer to a Maxwellian in the slow wind. We also discuss how this result could support a recent kinetic model of the solar wind proposed by Maksimovic, Pierrard and Lemaire [1997].
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