Heliospheric tomography using interplanetary scintillation observations 2. Latitude and heliocentric distance dependence of solar wind structure at 0.1-1 AU

Details Heliospheric tomography using interplanetary scintillation observations 2. Latitude and heliocentric distance dependence of solar wind structure at 0.1-1 AU Heliospheric tomography using interplanetary scintillation observations 2. Latitude and heliocentric distance dependence of solar wind structure at 0.1-1 AU

Feb 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jgr...103.1981k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 103, Issue A2, p. 1981-1990

Physics

65

Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary Dust, Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma, Planetology: Solar System Objects: Dust

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Interplanetary scintillation is a useful means to measure the solar wind in regions inaccessible to in situ observation. However, interplanetary scintillation measurements involve a line-of-sight integration, which relates contributions from all locations along the line of sight to the actual observation. We have developed a computer assisted tomography (CAT) program to reduce the adverse effects of the line-of-sight integration. The program uses solar rotation and solar wind motion to provide three-dimensional perspective views of each point in space accessible to the interplanetary scintillation observations and optimizes a three-dimensional solar wind speed distribution to fit the observations. We analyzed IPS speeds observed at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory and confirmed that (1) the solar wind during the solar minimum phase has a dominant polar high-speed solar wind region with speeds of about 800kms-1 and within 30° of the solar equator speeds decrease to 400kms-1 as observed by Ulysses, and (2) high-speed winds get their final speed of 750-900kms-1 within 0.1 AU, and consequently, that acceleration of the solar wind is small above 0.1 AU.

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