Solar Wind and the Gegenschein

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Mar 1961

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1961natur.189..993h&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 189, Issue 4769, pp. 993-994 (1961).

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To account for the motion of comet tails, Bierm ann1 has suggested that there is neutral ionized hydrogen streaming outward from the Sun, and that at the Earth's orbit this plasma has a density typically of the order of 102 protons cm.-3 and a velocity of approximately 500 km. sec.-1. During periods of violent solar activity the velocity increases possibly to 1,500 km. sec.-1 and the density increases by one or two orders of magnitude. Parker2 has also shown that for theoretical reasons there is a hydrodynamic expansion of the solar corona, referred to as the `solar wind', and that at the Earth's orbit the solar wind has approximately the same density and velocity as estimated by Biermann.

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