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Pickup ions are created when interstellar neutral atoms resonantly exchange charge with the solar wind (SW) ions, especially in the supersonic part of the wind, where they carry most of the plasma pressure. Here we present numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Nikolai V. Pogorelov , Matthew C. Bedford , Igor A. Kryukov , Gary P. Zank

The effect of solar wind on dust particle, meteoroid, is investigated. Rotation of the particle is also considered. Detail derivations of both equation of motion and Euler's dynamical equations, are presented. The most simple form of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 J. Klacka

This paper presents results of comparison between observations of coronal holes in the UV (SOHO EIT) and microwave emission (17, 5.7 GHz, 327 and 150.9 MHz, NoRH, SSRT and Nancy radioheliographs), and solar wind parameters, according to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. Prosovetsky , I. Myagkova

While the quiet Sun magnetic field shows only little variation with the solar cycle, long-term variations cannot be completely ruled out from first principles. We investigate the potential effect of quiet Sun magnetism on spectral solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-05 M. Rempel

The Sun and Sun-like stars lose angular momentum to their magnetised stellar winds. This braking torque is coupled to the stellar magnetic field, such that changes in the strength and/or geometry of the field modifies the efficiency of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Adam J. Finley , Siddhant Deshmukh , Sean P. Matt , Mathew Owens , Chi-Ju Wu

The Venusian atmosphere is in a state of superrotation where prevailing westward winds move much faster than the planet's rotation. Venus is covered with thick clouds that extend from about 45 to 70 km altitude, but thermal radiation…

When the solar wind interacts with the ionosphere of an unmagnetized planet, it induces currents that form an induced magnetosphere. These currents and their associated magnetic fields play a pivotal role in controlling the movement of…

Connecting in-situ measured solar-wind plasma properties with typical regions on the Sun can provide an effective constraint and test to various solar wind models. We examine the statistical characteristics of the solar wind with an origin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Hui Fu , Maria S. Madjarska , Lidong Xia , Bo Li , Zhenghua Huang , Zhipeng Wangguan

Lunar impact flashes have been monitored over the last 20 years for determining the mass frequency distribution of near-Earth objects in the cm-dm size range. In this work, using telescopic observations in R and I band from the NELIOTA…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Chrysa Avdellidou , Jeremie Vaubaillon

The transport of energetic particles in response to solar wind turbulence is important for space weather. To understand charged particle transport, it is usually assumed that the phase of the turbulence is randomly distributed (the random…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Masaru Nakanotani , Lingling Zhao , Gary P. Zank

Space weather predictions of the solar wind impacting Earth are usually first based on remote-sensing observations of the solar disc and corona, and eventually validated and/or refined with in-situ measurements taken at the Sun$-$Earth…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Erika Palmerio

The Moon appears bright in the sky as a source of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs). These ENAs have recently been imaged over a broad energy range both from near the lunar surface, by India's Chandrayaan-1 mission (CH-1), and from a much more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Saul , P. Wurz , A. Vorburger , D. F. Rodríguez M. , S. A. Fuselier , D. J. McComas , E. Möbius , S. Barabash , Herb Funsten , Paul Janzen

Solar wind is probably the best laboratory to study turbulence in astrophysical plasmas. In addition to the presence of magnetic field, the differences with neutral fluid isotropic turbulence are: weakness of collisional dissipation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Olga Alexandrova , Christopher H. K. Chen , Luca Sorriso-Valvo , Timothy S. Horbury , Stuart D. Bale

We utilize observations from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) to study the radial evolution of the solar wind in the inner heliosphere. We analyze electron velocity distribution functions observed by the Solar Wind Electrons, Alphas, and…

A technique to estimate mass erosion rate of surface soil during landing of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) and total mass ejected due to the rocket plume interaction is proposed and tested. The erosion rate is proportional to the product of…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John E. Lane , Philip T. Metzger

An accurate solar wind speed model is important for space weather predictions, catastrophic event warnings, and other issues concerning solar wind - magnetosphere interaction. In this work, we construct a model based on convolutional neural…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Rong Lin , Zhekai Luo , Jiansen He , Lun Xie , Chuanpeng Hou , Shuwei Chen

Power-spectrum analyses of the decay rates of certain nuclides reveal (at very high confidence levels) an annual oscillation and periodicities that may be attributed to solar rotation and to solar r-mode oscillations. A comparison of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-17 Peter Sturrock , Ephraim Fischbach , Daniel Javorsek , Jere Jenkins , Robert Lee

Characterising the large-scale structure and plasma properties of the inner corona is crucial to understand the source and subsequent expansion of the solar wind and related space weather effects. Here we apply a new coronal rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Huw Morgan , Anthony C. Cook

Statistical classification of the Helios solar wind observations into several populations sorted by bulk speed has revealed an outward acceleration of the wind. The faster the wind is, the smaller is this acceleration in the 0.3 - 1 au…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Dakeyo , Maksimovic , Démoulin , Halekas , Stevens

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto on July 14, 2015, carrying two instruments that detect charged particles. Pluto has a tenuous, extended atmosphere that is escaping the weak gravity of the planet. The interaction of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 F. Bagenal , P. A. Delamere , H. A. Elliott , M. E. Hill , C. M. Lisse , D. J. McComas , R. L McNutt, , J. D. Richardson , C. W. Smith , D. F. Strobel