Radial evolution of intermittent heat flux in solar coronal holes
Recently, we suggested that the source of ion heating in solar coronal holes is small-scale reconnection events (microflares) at the coronal base. The microflares launch intermittent heat flux up into the corona exciting ion cyclotron waves through a plasma microinstability. The ions are heated by t...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics |
| Online Access: | http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/11/485/2004/npg-11-485-2004.pdf |