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The critical solution describing the acceleration of the solar wind minor ion component is obtained taking the temperature profiles (based on the one-ion model of McKenzie et al. 1997) as input. The model includes preferential heating of the heavy ion species and the temperature anisotropy expected if the heating is caused by ion-cyclotron damping of Alfven waves.
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Czechowski, A., Ratkiewicz, R., Mckenzie, J.F., Axford, W.I. (1999). Minor Ions And Acceleration Of The Fast Solar Wind. In: Büchner, J., Axford, I., Marsch, E., Vasyliūnas, V. (eds) Plasma Astrophysics And Space Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4203-8_46
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