Correlations at large scales and the onset of turbulence in the fast solar wind

We show that the scaling of structure functions of magnetic and velocity fields in a mostly highly Alfv\'{e}nic fast solar wind stream depends strongly on the joint distribution of the dimensionless measures of cross helicity and residual energy. Already at very low frequencies, fluctuations th...

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Main Authors: Wicks, RT, Roberts, D, Mallet, A, Schekochihin, A, Horbury, T, Chen, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2013