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Electron heat flux constraints in the solar wind

Gary, S. Peter; Daughton, William; Skoug, Ruth M.

Enhanced fluctuations from electromagnetic heat flux instabilities may, through wave-particle scattering, constrain the electron heat flux which flows parallel to the background magnetic field in the solar wind. A corollary of this hypothesis is that instability thresholds should correspond to observable bounds on the heat flux. Here plasma and ma…