UVCS Observations of Temperature and Velocity Profiles in Coronal Holes

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Feb 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ssrv..tmp...96a&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, Online First

Physics

Solar Physics, Corona, Solar Wind

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The spectroscopic observations of the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS), on board the SOHO observatory, allow the study and the full characterization of the expansion of the solar atmosphere by means of measurements of the outflow speeds and the physical properties of the wind, directly in the region where the solar plasma is heated and accelerated: the extended corona. During solar minimum, when the magnetic configuration of the corona is rather simple, the open magnetic fields emerging from the wide polar coronal holes channel toward the heliosphere both the fast and the slow wind. The fast wind flows along flux tubes with lower areal divergence than the slow wind which is guided by flux tubes characterized by non-monotonic areal expansion functions. Differences in the physical properties, such as kinetic temperature, electron density, composition and density fluctuations, of the fast and slow wind in the corona are discussed.

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