Preliminary retrieval of solar wind latitude distribution from Solar Wind Anisotropies/SOHO observations

Details Preliminary retrieval of solar wind latitude distribution from Solar Wind Anisotropies/SOHO observations Preliminary retrieval of solar wind latitude distribution from Solar Wind Anisotropies/SOHO observations

Jul 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jgr...10314523k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 103, Issue A7, p. 14523-14538

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Interplanetary Physics: Sources Of The Solar Wind, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Corona, And Astronomy: Ultraviolet Emissions

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The Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) instrument on board the SOHO spacecraft measures Lyman alpha radiation emanating mainly from neutral hydrogen gas in the solar neighborhood. This gas is part of the local interstellar cloud in which the Sun and the heliosphere are immersed. Measurements of Lyman alpha can be used to infer the local cloud characteristics like the velocity and the direction of the flow, gas temperature, and density. The strong interaction between the Sun and the neutral hydrogen gas also makes possible investigations of solar characteristics by Lyman alpha measurements. In this work we will concentrate on deriving the latitudinal distribution of solar-induced ionization from SWAN Lyman alpha maps measured in 1996 at a time of the solar minimum. From the ionization we derive the distribution of the solar wind mass flux. SWAN Lyman alpha data show that the ionization and the mass flux are nearly flat for all solar latitudes except the narrow belt from -20° to 20° around the solar equator. In this region, ionization and the solar wind mass flux show a definite increase, which can be seen as an intensity depression in the Lyman alpha data from directions near the ecliptic. These results confirm earlier in situ measurements by Ulysses during the present minimum and Lyman alpha measurements by Prognoz satellites 20 years ago.

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