Large-scale variations of solar wind elemental composition and charge states with heliospheric latitude

Details Large-scale variations of solar wind elemental composition and charge states with heliospheric latitude Large-scale variations of solar wind elemental composition and charge states with heliospheric latitude

Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.confq..74w&link_type=abstract

Max-Planck-Inst. für Aeronomie, International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 74

Computer Science

Chemical Composition, Coronal Holes, Latitude, Mass Spectrometers, Solar Wind, Solar Corpuscular Radiation, Ions, Current Sheets, Temperature Profiles, Ulysses Mission, Abundance

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The Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) onboard Ulysses allows determination of the elemental composition of the solar wind and the charge states of all major solar wind ion species. Ulysses left the ecliptic plane in early 1992, crossed the Sun's south polar region in late 1994 and made a fast approach back towards the ecliptic in the first half of 1995. Data from this period were investigated for long-term variations in the solar wind composition. At midlatitudes Ulysses encountered periodically the fast solar wind stream emerging from the south coronal hole. As a consequence, dramatic variations in the charge-states arise, between high charge-states dominating in the current sheet solar wind and low charge states in the coronal hole stream. However, the initial analysis indicates that from midlatitudes onwards, with Ulysses permanently immersed in the coronal hole stream, the charge state and elemental abundance ratios of the major solar wind ion species stayed essentially constant. This implies that the temperature profile in the coronal hole at solar wind source altitudes exhibit no variation with solar latitude. It confirms that the south coronal hole is essentially unstructured down to scale lengths of several degrees in solar latitude.

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