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Solar coronal heating by high-frequency dispersive Alfvén waves

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It is shown that high-frequency dispersive kinetic Alfvén waves can cause significant electron heating in the solar corona. The heating is produced by collisionless electron Landau dissipation of the parallel electron current associated with high-frequency dispersive kinetic Alfvén waves, which have a parallel electric field.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780, Bochum, Germany

    P.K. Shukla

  2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, U.K

    R. Bingham

  3. Max-Planck Institut für Aeronomie, D-37189, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

    J.F. McKenzie & W.I. Axford

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Shukla, P., Bingham, R., McKenzie, J. et al. Solar coronal heating by high-frequency dispersive Alfvén waves. Solar Physics 186, 61–66 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005133420666

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