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تسجيل مستخدم جديدDiamagnetic and Expansion Effects on the Observable Properties of the Slow Solar Wind in a Coronal Streamer
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The plasma density enhancements recently observed by the Large-Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft have sparked considerable interest. In our previous theoretical study of the formation and initial motion of these density enhancements it is found that beyond the helmet cusp of a coronal streamer the magnetized wake configuration is resistively unstable, that a traveling magnetic island develops at the center of the streamer, and that density enhancements occur within the magnetic islands. As the massive magnetic island travels outward, both its speed and width increase. The island passively traces the acceleration of the inner part of the wake. In the present paper a few spherical geometry effects are included, taking into account either the radial divergence of the magnetic field lines and the average expansion suffered by a parcel of plasma propagating outward, using the Expanding Box Model (EBM), and the diamagnetic force due to the overall magnetic field radial gradients, the so-called melon-seed force. It is found that the values of the acceleration and density contrasts can be in good agreement with LASCO observations, provided the spherical divergence of the magnetic lines starts beyond a critical distance from the Sun and the initial stage of the formation and acceleration of the plasmoid is due to the cartesian evolution of MHD instabilities. This result provides a constraint on the topology of the magnetic field in the coronal streamer.
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