Solar Wind: Coronal Origins
Abstract
To establish the coronal origins of the solar wind is to find its source regions at the Sun. Dominated by electrons and protons, this outflow of fully ionized atoms also carries traces of neutral hydrogen and heavier elements, such as alpha particles, oxygen and iron ions. There are two types of winds detected so far: the fast and the slow (see SOLAR WIND: GLOBAL PROPERTIES). Since they are disti...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/2313
- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE2313H
- Keywords:
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- Sun;
- Solar Heliosphere and Cosmic Rays