The Heliospheric He II 30.4 nm Solar Flux During Cycle 23

Details The Heliospheric He II 30.4 nm Solar Flux During Cycle 23 The Heliospheric He II 30.4 nm Solar Flux During Cycle 23

Jun 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005apj...625.1036a&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 625, Issue 2, pp. 1036-1044.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sun: Activity, Sun: Uv Radiation

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Because of the orbit characteristics of the vast majority of spacecraft, the solar flux has predominantly been measured at Earth or at least in the plane of the ecliptic. Therefore, the existing data do not directly demonstrate the fact that the latitudinal distribution of the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) solar flux is largely anisotropic. Indeed, in the EUV the nonuniform distribution of very contrasted bright features (i.e., active regions) and dark features (i.e., coronal holes) at the surface of the Sun produces both the obvious rotational (or longitudinal) modulation of the flux and also a strong latitudinal anisotropy. Although largely ignored up to now, the latitudinal anisotropy affects the physical conditions in the corona and heliosphere and should therefore be taken into account in several solar and heliospheric physics applications. We describe in this paper a technique for computing the He II 30.4 nm flux at an arbitrary position in the heliosphere from Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) EUV Imaging Telescope (EIT) images. This procedure was used to produce daily all-sky maps of the 30.4 nm flux from 1996 January to 2003 August, covering the first 8 yr of solar cycle 23. As could be expected from the examination of the EIT images, the 30.4 nm flux was found to be strongly anisotropic. The anisotropy Ipol/Ieq between the fluxes computed for viewpoints located above the solar poles and within the solar equatorial plane ranges from 0.9 at solar minimum to 0.6 at solar maximum. A 20% difference was also discovered between the north and south polar fluxes. The generalization of this technique to other lines of the EUV and far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectrum is discussed.

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