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Table 5.

Baseline numerical simulation parameters.

Parameter Value Comment
Solar wind speed 300 km/s Fixed
PSP orbital speed 195 km/s Fixed
Solar wind density 4000/cm3 Agrees with previous work
Electron temperature 50 eV 85 eV in prior work
Ion temperature 85 eV Fixed; results insensitive to Ti
Photoelectron yield 16 mA/m2 Fixed; estimated at 9.5 RS
Photoelectron energy (low) 2.7 eV 95% of photoelectrons
Photoelectron energy (high) 10 eV 5% of photoelectrons
Secondary electron energy 2 eV Estimate yield of ∼1.25 at 50 eV

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