ULYSSES observations of a recurrent high speed solar wind stream and the heliomagnetic streamer belt

Details ULYSSES observations of a recurrent high speed solar wind stream and the heliomagnetic streamer belt ULYSSES observations of a recurrent high speed solar wind stream and the heliomagnetic streamer belt

Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.2323b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 21, p. 2323-2326

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Current Sheets, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Wind Velocity, Stellar Mass Ejection, Coronal Holes, Mapping, Spectroheliographs, Three Dimensional Models, Ulysses Mission

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Near-ecliptic solar wind observations by Ulysses on its way to the polar regions of the Sun, compared with those from IMP 8 at 1 AU, showed that high-speed streams decay and broaden with heliocentric distance from IMP 8 to Ulysses, as expected. In July 1992 while traveling south at approximately 13 deg S and 5.3 AU, Ulysses encountered a recurrent high-speed stream, that may also have been observed at IMP 8. The stream has been observed a total of 14 times, once in each solar rotation through June 1993 at approximately 34 deg S. The source of the high-speed stream is an equatorward extension of the south polar coronal hole. From July 1992 through June 1993, averages of solar wind peak speed increased while density decreased with heliographic latitude. Both the stream and a low-speed, high-density flow, presumably associated with the heliomagnetic (coronal) streamer belt encircling the heliomagnetic equator, crossed Ulysses with the solar rotation period until April 1993 when the spacecraft was at approximately 29 deg S heliographic latitude. After this time, as the spacecraft climbed to higher latitudes, the central portion of the streamer belt with lowest speed and highest density disappeared. Therefore, at its maximum inclination, the belt was tilted at approximately 29 deg to the heliographic equator at this point in the solar cycle.

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