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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: Space Sci Rev. 2016 Mar 31;204(1-4):49–82. doi: 10.1007/s11214-016-0244-5

Table 2.

Expected typical values for plasma parameters and other derived quantities to be measured by FIELDS at different heliocentric distances. δBA and δEA are expectations for large Alfvénic fluctuations. δEL is the expected level of wave electric field fluctuations given a scaling that assumes constant energy density

Parameters 10 Rs 55 Rs 1 AU
Magnetic Field |B0|~ δ BA 2000 nT 70 nT 6 nT
Electric Field |Ec|vsw δ BA 100 mV/m 30 mV/m 3 mV/m
Density ne ~ δn 7000 cm−3 120 cm−3 7 cm−3
Electron Temperature Te 85 eV 25 eV 8 eV
Solar Wind Speed vsw 210 km/s 400 km/s 450 km/s
Alfvén Speed vA 500 km/s 125 km/s 45 km/s
Plasma Frequency fpe 750 kHz 100 kHz 24 kHz
Electron Gyrofrequency fce 60 kHz 2 kHz 160 Hz
Proton Gyrofrequency fcp 32 Hz 1 Hz 0.1 Hz
Convected Debye Length vsw/λD 4 μs 8 μs 22 μs
Convected Electron Inertial Length vsw/(c/ωpe) 0.3 ms 1.2 ms 5.5 ms
Convected Proton Inertial Length vsw/(c/ωpi) 13 ms 50 ms 250 ms
Convected Proton Gyroscale vsw/ρp 3 ms 30 ms 200 ms
DC/LF Electric Fluctuations δEA ~ vA δBA 1 V/m 10 mV/m 1 mV/m
Kinetic Electric Fluctuations δEL 1 V/m 70 mV/m 10 mV/m