Solar wind stream structure at large heliocentric distances Pioneer observations

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Mar 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....92.2231g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, March 1, 1987, p. 2231-2242.

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Heliosphere, Solar Orbits, Solar Wind, Velocity Distribution, Magnetic Fields, Pioneer Project, Solar Rotation, Voyager 1 Spacecraft

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Time profiles and histograms of plasma data from Pioneers 10 and 11 are examined for the period between 1975 and 1983. During this time, Pioneer 10 traveled between a heliocentric distance of 8.7 and 30.4 AU. The velocity structure of the solar wind at these heliocentric distances is found to have one of two distinct forms: approximately 70 percent of the time the solar wind has a nearly flat velocity profile. Occasionally, this flat velocity profile is accompanied by quasi-periodic variations in density and in thermal speed consistent with the concept that the 'corotating interaction regions' which are produced by the interaction of high- and low-speed streams at intermediate heliocentric distances are replaced by 'pressure regions' in the outer heliosphere. The remaining 30 percent of the time the solar wind is marked by large (50-200 km/s) long-term (30-120 days) shifts in the average solar wind velocity.

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