Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995georl..22..643h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 22, no. 5, p. 643-646
Physics
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Scintillation, Solar Activity, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Solar X-Rays, Synoptic Measurement, Magnetic Measurement, Mapping, Perturbation Theory, X Ray Telescopes
Scientific paper
Interplanetary scintillation measurements of the disturbance factor, g, from October 1991 to October 1992 are used to construct synoptic Carrington maps. These maps, which show the structure of the quiet solar wind, are compared with X-ray Carrington maps from the Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) instrument. For the period studied the global structure outlined by (weakly) enhanced g-values apparent in the interplanetary scintillation (IPS) maps tend to match the active regions (as shown in the X-ray maps) significantly better than the heliospheric current sheet. Contrary to traditional opinion, which views active regions as magnetically closed structures that do not have any significant impact on the solar wind flow, our results suggest that density fluctuations in the solar wind are significantly enhanced over active regions. These results support the suggestion by Uchida et al. (1992), based on Yohkoh observations of expanding active regions, that active regions play a role in feeding mass into the quiet solar wind.
Hick Pierre P.
Jackson Bernard V.
Rappoport S.
Slater Greg
Strong Keith
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