The solar origins of solar wind interstream flows - Near-equatorial coronal streamers

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Jul 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86.5408f&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, July 1, 1981, p. 5408-5416. Research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S

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Heavy Ions, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Electron Energy, Imp, Plasma Temperature, Solar Wind Velocity, Vela Satellites

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A class of low-speed solar wind flows with velocities of 450 km/s and less, ion temperatures of 40,000 K and less, and heavy ion distributions indicating moderate coronal freezing in temperatures in the range from 1 million to 2.5 millions K is considered. For brevity this class is termed interstream. Interstream flows have as yet, not firm identification with a coronal origin. The considered investigation is concerned with the identification of the coronal origins of interstream flows. It is found that major sources of low speed solar wind are the quiescent, near-equatorial coronal streamers. Such an identification provides a natural explanation for the long term variations of solar wind electron temperature and density observed at 1 AU by Feldman et al. (1979) in terms of the concurrent long term morphological variation in the coronal equatorial streamer belt observed using the Mauna Loa K-coronameters.

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