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Kenneth R. Lang 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1995,70(1-3):1-20
The Sun is enveloped by a hot, tenuous million-degree corona that expands to create a continuous solar wind that sweeps past all the planets and fills the heliosphere. The solar wind is modulated by strong gusts that are initiated by powerful explosions on the Sun, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections. This dynamic, invisible outer atmosphere of the Sun is currently under observation with the soft X-ray telescope aboard the Yohkoh spacecraft, whose results are presented. We also show observations from the Ulysses spacecraft that is now passing over the solar pole, sampling the solar wind in this region for the first time. Two other spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, have recently detected the outer edge of the invisible heliosphere, roughly halfway to the nearest star. Magnetic solar activity, the total radiative output from the Sun, and the Earth's mean global surface temperature all vary with the 11-year sunspot cycle in which the total number of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again in about 11 years. The terrestrial magnetic field hollows out a protective magnetic cavity, called the magnetosphere, within the solar wind. This protection is incomplete, however, so the Sun feeds an unseen world of high-speed particles and magnetic fields that encircle the Earth in space. These particles endanger spacecraft and astronauts, and also produce terrestrial aurorae. An international flotilla of spacecraft is now sampling the weak points in this magnetic defense. Similar spacecraft have also discovered a new radiation belt, in addition to the familiar Van Allen belts, except fed by interstellar ions instead of electrons and protons from the Sun. 相似文献
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Karine Issautier Nicole Meyer-Vernet Viviane Pierrard Joseph Lemaire 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2001,277(1-2):189-193
We use a kinetic collisionless model of the solar wind to calculate the radial variation of the electron temperature and obtain
analytical expressions at large radial distances. In order to be compared with Ulysses observations, the model, which initially
assumed a radial magnetic field, has been generalized to a spiral magnetic field. We present a preliminary comparison with
Ulysses observations in the fast solar wind at high heliospheric latitudes.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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The analysis of the transition from the large-scale fluid regime to the short-scale kinetic range of wavelengths in the development of the turbulent cascade of energy is nowadays subject of fervent discussion in the space plasmas scientific community. We make use of Hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell simulations where the full kinetic dynamics of ions is taken into account, while electrons are treated as a fluid. We investigate the development of turbulence in the solar wind, in 1D-3V phase space configuration and in the frequency range across the ion cyclotron frequency. These simulations allow for the analysis of the role of kinetic effects in the short-scale region of the energy spectra in the direction parallel to the background magnetic field. Our numerical results show the presence of a significant electrostatic activity at small wavelengths, triggered by the resonant interaction of ions with longitudinal waves. Our model does not allow to take into account the evolution of the turbulent spectra in the plane perpendicular to the ambient field, due to limited dimensionality in phase space. On the other hand, this model permits to isolate and study the possibility of transferring the electromagnetic large-scale energy on the small-scale kinetic electrostatic component of the spectrum. Peculiar features observed in the spacecraft data in the solar wind are qualitatively reproduced within the hybrid-Vlasov model, such as the generation of perpendicular temperature anisotropy and accelerated longitudinal beams of ions in the distribution of particle velocities as well as the appearance of a marked peak of electrostatic activity in the short-scale termination of the turbulent spectra. 相似文献
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Images of comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) are analyzed in conjunction with solar wind data from spacecraft to determine the relationship between solar wind conditions and plasma tail morphology. The disconnection event (DE) on March 25, 1996 is analyzed with the aid of data from the IMP-8 and WIND Earth-orbiting spacecraft and the DE is found to be correlated with a crossing of the heliospheric current sheet. The comet was within of Earth at the time of the DE and data from IMP-8 and WIND show no high-speed streams, significant density enhancements or shocks.The latitudinal variation in the appearance and orientation of the plasma tail are interpreted based on results from the Ulysses spacecraft. In the polar solar wind region, the comet has a relatively undisturbed appearance, no DEs were observed, and the orientation of the plasma tail was consistent with a higher solar wind speed. In the equatorial solar wind region, the comet's plasma tail had a disturbed appearance, a major DE was observed, and the orientation of the plasma tail was consistent with a lower solar wind speed. The boundary between the equatorial and polar regions crossed by comet Hyakutake in April 1996 was near 30°N (ecliptic) or 24°N (solar) latitude. 相似文献
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We present new in situ measurements of solar wind electron density as a function of heliolatitude. The data were obtained on Ulysses during its fast transit from south solar pole to north solar pole, at heliocentric distance about 1.5 AU, near the 1996 solar activity minimum. The density is measured accurately using the method of quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy with the Ulysses radio experiment, at a higher time resolution than the particle analysers on board. At low heliolatitudes (22° S to 21° N) the histogram of our data shows three main classes of flows with densities centered at 3.5, 7, and 12 cm-3, close to the values previously found by near-ecliptic space probes, in the region where fast coronal hole wind alternates with slower streamer belt wind. Poleward of 22° latitude where Ulysses encountered fast wind coming from coronal holes, the histogram of our data shows a single class of flow centered at 2.9 cm-3 with a roughly normal distribution. We find a density nearly independent of latitude, with the mean density from the south coronal hole 10% larger than that from the north, which may stem from a genuine north/south asymmetry and/or from the small decrease in solar activity during the time of the observations. We finally compare the data with some analytical models. 相似文献
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Opitz A. Karrer R. Wurz P. Galvin A. B. Bochsler P. Blush L. M. Daoudi H. Ellis L. Farrugia C. J. Giammanco C. Kistler L. M. Klecker B. Kucharek H. Lee M. A. Möbius E. Popecki M. Sigrist M. Simunac K. Singer K. Thompson B. Wimmer-Schweingruber R. F. 《Solar physics》2009,256(1-2):365-377
The two STEREO spacecraft with nearly identical instrumentation were launched near solar activity minimum and they separate by about 45° per year, providing a unique tool to study the temporal evolution of the solar wind. We analyze the solar wind bulk velocity measured by the two PLASTIC plasma instruments onboard the two STEREO spacecraft. During the first half year of our measurements (March?–?August 2007) we find the typical alternating slow and fast solar wind stream pattern expected at solar minimum. To evaluate the temporal evolution of the solar wind bulk velocity we exclude the spatial variations and calculate the correlation between the solar wind bulk velocity measured by the two spacecraft. We account for the different spacecraft positions in radial distance and longitude by calculating the corresponding time lag. After adjusting for this time lag we compare the solar wind bulk velocity measurements at the two spacecraft and calculate the correlation between the two time-shifted datasets. We show how this correlation decreases as the time difference between two corresponding measurements increases. As a result, the characteristic temporal changes in the solar wind bulk velocity can be inferred. The obtained correlation is 0.95 for a time lag of 0.5 days and 0.85 for 2 days.
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The reduced magnetic helicity is a quantity related to the handedness of the magnetic field fluctuations. In the present paper we study the scaling law of the reduced magnetic helicity in fast streams in the solar wind by using high-resolution magnetic field data by the Ulysses spacecraft. We show that at high frequencies both the left-hand and the right-hand helicity survives, implying that there is no predominance of a single sign. In addition, the scaling law of the magnetic helicity exhibits a strong dependence on the data set analyzed and we do not observe any universal behavior. 相似文献
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J. L. Bertaux E. Quémerais R. Lallement E. Kyrölä W. Schmidt T. Summanen J. P. Goutail M. Berthé J. Costa T. Holzer 《Solar physics》1997,175(2):737-770
After one year of almost flawless operation on board the SOHO spacecraft poised at L1 Lagrange point, we report the main features
of SWAN observations. SWAN is mainly dedicated to the monitoring of the latitude distribution of the solar wind by the Lα
method. Maps of sky Lα emissions were recorded througout the year. The region of maximum emission, located in the upwind hemisphere,
deviates strongly from the pattern that could be expected from a solar wind constant with latitude. It is divided into two
lobes by a depression aligned with the solar equatorial plane called the Lyα groove already noted in 1976 Prognoz data. The
north lobe is much brighter than the south lobe. These two characteristics can be explained qualitatively by an enhanced ionization
along the neutral sheet where the slow solar wind is concentrated, which results from the higher low-latitude solar wind mass
flux as measured by Ulysses. The groove is the direct imprint on the sky of the enhanced carving by the slow solar wind, at
this time of solar minimum, when the tilt angle of the neutral sheet is small. The question is still pending to predict what
will happen with the ascending phase of the solar cycle. Observations of comets are briefly mentioned, with the ability of
SWAN to monitor the H2O production of many comets. Operations of the instrument are briefly described, including some instrumental problems which
could be solved by software modifications sent to the instrument.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004979605559 相似文献
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The solar wind provides a source of solar abundance data that only recently is being fully exploited. The Ion Composition Instrument (ICI) aboard the ISEE-3/ICE spacecraft was in the solar wind continuously from August 1978 to December 1982. The results have allowed us to establish long-term average solar wind abundance values for helium, oxygen, neon, silicon, and iron. The Charge-Energy-Mass (CHEM) instrument aboard the CCE spacecraft of the AMPTE mission has measured the abundance of these elements in the magnetosheath and has also added carbon, nitrogen, magnesium, and sulfur to the list. There is strong evidence that these magnetosheath abundances are representative of the solar wind. Other sources of solar wind abundances are Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) experiments and Apollo lunar foils. When comparing the abundances from all of these sources with photospheric abundances, it is clear that helium is depleted in the solar wind while silicon and iron are enhanced. Solar wind abundances for carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and neon correlate well with the photospheric values. The incorporation of minor ions into the solar wind appears to depend upon both the ionization times for the elements and the Coulomb drag exerted by the outflowing proton flux. 相似文献
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Comparing the records of the radio spectrographs ARTEMIS (100–500 MHz) on the ground and URAP (1–1000 kHz) on the Ulysses spacecraft, we find that most type III bursts extend from the corona to the solar wind. Using the positions of the associated flares, and assuming an average intensity ratio between these two frequency ranges, we derive for the first time the average radiation pattern of interplanetary type III bursts. We find that at 800 kHz it is shifted east of the radial direction by 30° and has a half-width of about 80° at maximum/10; the shift and width increase towards lower frequencies. Ulysses high-latitude observations show that the cross-section perpendicular to the heliospheric equator is about the same. We interpret these properties by refraction effects in local density gradients. 相似文献
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Maclennan LJ 《The Astrophysical journal》2000,534(1):L109-L112
Anomalous cosmic-ray (ACR) oxygen (O) fluxes in the energy range 0.5-5.0 MeV nucleon-1 were measured in the ecliptic plane at 1 and 5 AU in 1997 and 1998. Using measurements from essentially identical instruments on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and Ulysses spacecraft, we were able to monitor the decrease with time of the ACR O fluxes in the inner heliosphere during the onset of solar cycle 23. The data obtained from three time intervals that are relatively undisturbed by solar activity during this period show that the e-folding time is approximately 140+/-40 days for the disappearance of 2-5 MeV nucleon-1 ACR oxygen from the ecliptic plane at 5 AU. 相似文献
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Analysis of the Interball-1 spacecraft data (1995 – 2000) has shown that the solar wind ion flux sometimes increases or decreases abruptly by more than
20% over a time period of several seconds or minutes. Typically, the amplitude of such sharp changes in the solar wind ion
flux (SCIFs) is larger than 0.5×108 cm−2 s−1. These sudden changes of the ion flux were also observed by the Solar Wind Experiment (SWE), on board the Wind spacecraft, as the solar wind density increases and decreases with negligible changes in the solar wind velocity. SCIFs occur
irregularly at 1 AU, when plasma flows with specific properties come to the Earth’s orbit. SCIFs are usually observed in slow,
turbulent solar wind with increased density and interplanetary magnetic field strength. The number of times SCIFs occur during
a day is simulated using the solar wind density, magnetic field, and their standard deviations as input parameters for a period
of five years. A correlation coefficient of ∼0.7 is obtained between the modelled and the experimental data. It is found that
SCIFs are not associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), corotating interaction regions (CIRs), or interplanetary shocks;
however, 85% of the sector boundaries are surrounded by SCIFs. The properties of the solar wind plasma for days with five
or more SCIF observations are the same as those of the solar wind plasma at the sector boundaries. One possible explanation
for the occurrence of SCIFs (near sector boundaries) is magnetic reconnection at the heliospheric current sheet or local current
sheets. Other probable causes of SCIFs (inside sectors) are turbulent processes in the slow solar wind and at the crossings
of flux tubes. 相似文献
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R.G. Marsden 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2001,277(1-2):337-347
Launched in October 1990, the ESA-NASA Ulysses mission has conducted the very first survey of the heliosphere within 5 AU
of the Sun over the full range of heliolatitudes. With polar passes taking place in 1994 and 1995, the timing of the mission
has enabled Ulysses to characterise the global structure of the heliosphere at solar minimum, when the corona adopts its simplest
configuration. The most important findings to date include a confirmation of the uniform nature of the high-speed (∼ 750 km/s)solar
wind flow from the polar coronal holes, filling two-thirds of the volume of the inner heliosphere; the sharp boundary, existing
from the chromosphere through the corona, between fast and slow solar wind streams; the latitude independence of theradial
component of the heliospheric magnetic field; the lower-than-expected latitude gradient of galactic and anomalous cosmic rays;
the continued existence of recurrent increases in the flux of low-energy ions and electrons up to the highest latitudes. Without
doubt, the Ulysses mission has provided a unique set of observations of the heliosphere at solar minimum, resulting in a good
understanding of many aspects of its behaviour. In this review, we will highlight some of the key findings to date, and also
look ahead to the challenges that await as Ulysses returns to high latitudes to explore the heliosphere at solar maximum and
beyond. Finally, a brief summary is given of the prospects for heliospheric research in the post-Ulysses era.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Alberto Flandes Harald Krüger Douglas P. Hamilton J. Francisco Valdés-Galicia Linda Spilker Rogelio Caballero 《Planetary and Space Science》2011,59(13):1455-1471
High speed dust streams emanating from near Jupiter were first discovered by the Ulysses spacecraft in 1992. Since then the phenomenon has been re-observed by Galileo in 1995, Cassini in 2000, and Ulysses in 2004. The dust grains are expected to be charged to a potential of , which is sufficient to allow the planet's magnetic field to accelerate them away from the planet, where they are subsequently influenced by the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). A similar phenomenon was observed near Saturn by Cassini. Here, we report and analyze simultaneous dust, IMF and solar wind data for all dust streams from the two Ulysses Jupiter flybys. We find that compression regions (CRs) in the IMF – regions of enhanced magnetic field – precede most dust streams. Furthermore, the duration of a dust stream is roughly comparable with that of the precedent CR, and the occurrence of a dust stream and the occurrence of the previous CR are separated by a time interval that depends on the distance to Jupiter. The intensity of the dust streams and their precedent CRs are also correlated, but this correlation is only evident at distances from the planet no greater than 2 AU. Combining these observations, we argue that CRs strongly affect dust streams, probably by deflecting dust grain trajectories, so that they can reach the spacecraft and be detected by its dust sensor. 相似文献
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During the decay of solar cosmic-ray events cosmic-rays with kinetic energies of about 1 MeV are convected outward with the solar wind. It is shown that, with currently available observations it should be possible to demonstrate directly the energy losses which are occurring. Observations from two spacecraft on the same heliocentric radial line are required. In this paper observations from Venera-4 and Imp-F have been used. A simple and direct demonstration would be provided by the observation of nearly mono-energetic pulses convected between the two spacecraft, but no such pulses were found to be present. A second method depends upon observing the ratio of the integral fluxes at the two spacecraft and comparing this with the value predicted by theory. The relevant theoretical analysis has been given. It is shown that in order to discriminate between energy-loss processes the spacecraft must be well separated. For spacecraft at Earth's orbit and the orbit of Venus the integral-flux ratio predicted with energy loss due to adiabatic deceleration is a factor of three higher than that predicted with no energy loss. Comparisons of integral-flux ratios for two events observed on spacecraft separated by approximately 0.1 AU gave inconclusive results. In view of the importance of energy-loss processes in the propagation of cosmic rays it is suggested that others with access to relevant data might continue this investigation. 相似文献
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The Suprathermal Plasma Analysers on GEOS-2 are able to make differential energy measurements of plasma particles down to sub-eV energies because the entire sensor package can be biased relative to the spacecraft. When the package is biased negatively with respect to space potential, low energy positive ions are sucked in and are more easily detected against the background. Large fluxes of ions with temperatures of the order of 1 eV or less were consistently detected at space potential when the spacecraft was in the magnetosheath though not when it was in the nearby magnetosphere. This apparent geophysical correlation, suggesting that the ions were part of the magnetosheath ion population, was contradicted by the fact that the ions showed no signs of the large drift velocity associated with the electric field in the magnetosheath. We conclude, after further investigation, that the observed ions were probably sputtered as neutrals from the spacecraft surface by the impact of solar wind ions and subsequently ionized by sunlight or electron impact. The effect of sputtering by solar wind ions has not been previously observed, although it could have consequences for the long-term stability of spacecraft surfaces. 相似文献
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This paper presents a two-dimensional, Alfvén-wave-driven solar wind model, in which the wave energy is assumed to cascade from the low-frequency Alfvén waves to high-frequency ion cyclotron waves and to be transferred to the solar wind protons by cyclotron resonance at the Kolmogorov rate. A typical structure in the meridional plane consisting of a coronal streamer near the Sun, a fast wind in high latitudes, and a slow wind across the heliospheric current sheet, is found. The fast wind obtained in the polar region is essentially similar to that derived by previous one-dimensional flow-tube models, and its density profile in the vicinity of the Sun roughly matches relevant observations. The proton conditions at 1 AU are also consistent with observations for both the fast and slow winds. The Alfvén waves appear in the fast- and slow-wind regions simultaneously and have comparable amplitudes, which agrees with Helios observations. The acceleration and heating of the solar wind by the Alfvén waves are found to occur mainly in the near-Sun region. It is demonstrated in terms of one-dimensional calculations that the distinct properties of the fast and slow winds are mainly attributed to different geometries of the flow tubes associated with the two sorts of winds. In addition, the 2-D and 1-D simulations give essentially the same results for both the fast and the slow winds. 相似文献
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IMP-6 spacecraft observations of low frequency radio emission, fast electrons, and solar wind plasma are used to examine the dynamics of the fast electron streams which generate solar type-III radio bursts. Of twenty solar electron events observed between April, 1971 and August, 1972, four were found to be amenable to detailed analysis. Observations of the direction of arrival of the radio emission at different frequencies were combined with the solar wind density and velocity measurements at 1 AU to define an Archimedean spiral trajectory for the radio burst exciter. The propagation characteristics of the exciter and of the fast electrons observed at 1 AU were then conpared. We find that: (1) the fast electrons excite the radio emission at the second harmonic; (2) the total distance travelled by the electrons was between 30 and 70% longer than the length of the smooth spiral defined by the radio observations; (3) this additional distance travelled is the result of scattering of the electrons in the interplanetary medium; (4) the observations are consistent with negligible true energy loss by the fast electrons. 相似文献
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S. A. Grib 《Astronomy Letters》2010,36(1):59-63
The interaction of traveling fast solar shock waves with other fast shock waves generated previously is considered in terms
of magnetohydrodynamics for various solar wind parameters. The shocks are not piston ones and move freely in the flow. The
magnetic structure in the interplanetary magnetic field emerging after the shock interaction is shown to correspond to the
well-known magnetic configuration commonly observed on spacecraft or the classical Hundhausen R model. A head-on collision of solar shock waves with the boundary of a magnetic cloud is considered. It is pointed out that
a slow shockwave refracted into the magnetic cloud can appear at an oblique collision of the shock with the cloud boundary.
The results clarify our understanding of the available spacecraft data. 相似文献