Solar wind speed and its acceleration inferred using the interplanetary scintillation method in carrington rotation 1753 |
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| Authors: | Kazuyuki Hakamada Masayoshi Kojima |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Engineering Physics, Chubu University, 487 Kasugai, Aichi, Japan;(2) Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, 442 Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Solar wind speeds (SWSs) estimated by interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations during Carrington rotation 1753 are projected onto the so-called  source-surface of 2.5 solar radii along magnetic field lines in interplanetary space. The following two working hypotheses are examined from different points of view: (1) The SWS is a weighted mean along the line of sight to a radio source; the weight for the SWS depends on the distance from theP-point, the closest approach to the Sun on the line of sight. (2) The weighting function has a very sharp peak at theP-point, so that the SWS shows a real solar wind speed at theP-point. In both the two cases, the SWSs projected onto the source surface are further projected onto the photosphere along magnetic field lines in the corona. Footpoints of these field lines are inferred as photospheric source regions of the solar wind. The intensity of the Hei (1083 nm) absorption line (HEI) in the chromosphere corresponding to these photospheric sources is interpolated from observational data. The weighted mean of the HEI is calculated in case 1. The HEI corresponding to theP-point is used in case 2. The SWS is compared with the HEI in both the two cases. It is found that the correlation between the SWS and the HEI is better in case 2 than in case 1. It is further inferred by correlation analysis between the SWS and the HEI that the solar wind is accelerated within  27 solar radii on average. Although the data examined in this paper were limited to just one solar rotation, these results suggest that the SWS estimated by the IPS technique corresponds to the solar wind speed near theP-point and the weighting function along the line of sight may have a very sharp peak near theP-point. |
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