The origin of noncompressive density enhancements in the solar wind
Abstract
A model is proposed according to which noncomrpessive density enhancements are formed in regions of the corona with converging magnetic field configurations. The model makes it possible to understand the reasons for the high density and low temperature of noncompressive enhancements, as well as to explain the variation of their characteristics during a solar activity cycle and their connection with the boundaries of sectors of the interplanetary magnetic field. It is established that noncompressive density enhancements make a significant contribution to the balance of mass and energy of the solar wind at 1 AU during the decline and minimum of solar activity.
- Publication:
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Astronomicheskii Zhurnal
- Pub Date:
- December 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983AZh....60.1196K
- Keywords:
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- Plasma Density;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Solar Wind;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Solar Protons;
- Solar Physics