Shear-driven Transition to Isotropically Turbulent Solar Wind Outside the Alfvén Critical Zone

• Main Authors: D. Ruffolo, W. H. Matthaeus, R. Chhiber, A. V. Usmanov, Y. Yang, R. Bandyopadhyay, T. N. Parashar, M. L. Goldstein, C. E. Deforest, M. Wan, A. Chasapis, B. A. Maruca, M. Velli, J. C. Kasper
• Other Authors: Southern University of Science and Technology
• Format: Article
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/59958
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Motivated by prior remote observations of a transition from striated solar coronal structures to more isotropic "flocculated"fluctuations, we propose that the dynamics of the inner solar wind just outside the Alfvén critical z...