Application of the theory of Large-Scale Quantization to the inner heliosheath

13th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: Voyager, IBEX, and the Interstellar Medium

物理学;天文学

Livadiotis, G.^1

Southwest Research Institute, United States^1

关键词: Individual particles;    Local magnetic field;    Magnetic field strengths;    Orders of magnitude;    Planck constants;    Plasma frequencies;    Plasma parameter;    Statistical behavior;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/577/1/012018/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/577/1/012018

学科分类：天文学(综合)

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper addresses a remarkable feature of space plasmas that is related to their peculiar statistical behavior: The existence of a new quantization constant ∗, similar to the standard Planck's quantization constant , but 12 orders of magnitude larger. The standard quantization through the Planck constant may occur to individual particles, while the large- scale quantization through the new constant ∗ applies only to clusters of correlated particles. In space plasmas, the value of ∗ can be approximated by the division of the magnetosonic energy over the plasma frequency. Having the actual value of ∗ been determined, it can be further applied in space plasma datasets to derive unknown plasma parameters when some key observable is missing, such as the magnetic field strength. This application is tested with solar wind data in the inner heliosphere, where the magnetic field is known, and then it is employed in the inner heliosheath plasma to estimate the unknown local magnetic field.