UV studies and the solar wind |
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Authors: | J. L. Bertaux R. Lallement E. Quemeelais |
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Affiliation: | (1) Service d' Aeronomie du CNRS, Verrieres-le-Buisson, France |
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Abstract: | The solar wind carves a cavity in the flow of interstellar H atoms through the solar system by charge-exchange ionization. The resulting Ly- sky pattern depends on the latitude distribution of the solar wind flux and velocity. We review how the solar wind characteristics (mass flux latitude distribution) can be retrieved from Ly- observations, yielding a new remote sensing method of solar wind studies, through UV optical measurements. |
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