Doppler scintillation measurements of the heliospheric current sheet and coronal streamers close to the Sun |
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Authors: | Richard Woo John W Armstrong Paul R Gazis |
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Institution: | (1) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 91 109 Pasadena, CA, USA;(2) NASA Ames Research Center, SJSU Foundation, 94035 Moffett Field, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | Prominent enhancements in Doppler scintillation lasting a fraction of a day (solar source several degrees wide) and overlying the neutral line represent the signature of the heliospheric current sheet and the apparent interplanetary manifestation of coronal streamers near the Sun. This first detection of coronal streamers in radio scintillation measurements provides the link betweenin situ measurements of the spatial wavenumber spectrum of electron density fluctuations beyond 0.3 AU and earlier measurements deduced from radio scintillation and scattering observations inside 0.3 AU. Significant differences between the density spectra of fast streams and slow solar wind associated with the heliospheric current sheet near the Sun reinforce the emerging picture that high- and low-speed flows are organized by the large-scale solar magnetic field, and that while the contrast between solar wind properties of the two flows is highest near the Sun, it undergoes substantial erosion in the ecliptic plane as the solar wind expands. |
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