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We examine the long-term time evolution (1965-2015) of the relationships between solar wind proton temperature (Tp) and speed (Vp) and between the proton density (np) and speed using OMNI solar wind observations taken near Earth. We find a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Heather A. Elliott , David J. McComas , Craig E. DeForest

We present the results of a study of solar wind velocity and magnetic field correlation lengths over the last 35 years. The correlation length of the magnetic field magnitude lambda(|B|) increases on average by a factor of two at solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. T. Wicks , M. J. Owens , T. S. Horbury

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 solar wind, a stream of charged particles originating from the Sun and transcending interplanetary space, poses risks to technology and astronauts. In this work, we develop a prediction model to forecast the solar wind speed at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Daniel Collin , Yuri Shprits , Stefan J. Hofmeister , Stefano Bianco , Guillermo Gallego

Erroneous GNSS positioning, failures in spacecraft operations and power outages due to geomagnetically induced currents are severe threats originating from space weather. Having knowledge of potential impacts on modern society in advance is…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Carsten Baumann , Aoife E. McCloskey

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

Knowledge about the background solar wind plays a crucial role in the framework of space weather forecasting. In-situ measurements of the background solar wind are only available for a few points in the heliosphere where spacecraft are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-05 C. Gressl , A. M. Veronig , M. Temmer , D. Odstrcil , J. A. Linker , Z. Mikic , P. Riley

The solar activity displays variability and periodic behaviours over a wide range of timescales, with the presence of a most prominent cycle with a mean length of 11 years. Such variability is transported within the heliosphere by solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-17 R. Reda , L. Giovannelli , T. Alberti

Wind is a critical component of the Earth system and has unmistakable impacts on everyday life. The CYGNSS satellite mission improves observational coverage of ocean winds via a fleet of eight micro-satellites that use reflected GNSS…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-09 William Bekerman , Joseph Guinness

We present a first theoretical modeling of joint Parker Solar Probe (PSP) - Metis/Solar Orbiter (SolO) quadrature observations Telloni et al 2022c. The combined observations describe the evolution of a slow solar wind plasma parcel from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Laxman Adhikari , Gary P. Zank , Daniele Telloni , Lingling Zhao

We study three CME/ICME events (2008 June 1-6, 2009 February 13-18, 2010 April 3-5) tracked from Sun to 1 AU in remote-sensing observations of STEREO Heliospheric Imagers and in situ plasma and magnetic field measurements. We focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Manuela Temmer , Tanja Rollett , Christian Möstl , Astrid M. Veronig , Bojan Vrsnak , Dusan Odstrcil

We study the properties and geoeffectiveness of solar wind high-speed streams (HSSs) emanating from coronal holes and associated with stream interaction regions (SIRs). This paper presents a statistical study of 588 SIR/HSS events with…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Maxime Grandin , Anita T. Aikio , Alexander Kozlovsky

Interplanetary Lyman alpha line profiles are derived from the SWAN H cell data measurements. The measurements cover a 6-year period from solar minimum (1996) to after the solar maximum of 2001. This allows us to study the variations of the…

We explore a possibility that the daily sea-level pressure (SLP) over South Korea responds to the high-speed solar wind event. This is of interest in two aspects: First, if there is a statistical association this can be another piece of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Il-Hyun Cho , Young-Sil Kwak , Katsuhide Marubashi , Yeon-Han Kim , Young-Deuk Park , Heon-Young Chang

Using data collected by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission in October 2021, we investigated coronal regions of the Sun by analyzing the Doppler spectral width of radio signals to estimate solar wind velocity. A simplified equation is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Keshav Aggarwal , R. K. Choudhary , Abhirup Datta , Roopa M. V. , Bijoy K. Dai

To better understand the influence of the activity cycle on the solar atmosphere, we report the time variation of the radius observed at 37 GHz ($\lambda$=8.1 mm) obtained by the Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory (MRO) through Solar Cycles 22…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Caius L. Selhorst , Juha Kallunki , C. G. Giménez de Castro , Adriana Valio , Joaquim E. R. Costa

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

We study the properties of 115 coronal holes in the time-range from 2010/08 to 2017/03, the peak velocities of the corresponding high-speed streams as measured in the ecliptic at 1 AU, and the corresponding changes of the Kp index as marker…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-27 Stefan J. Hofmeister , Astrid Veronig , Manuela Temmer , Susanne Vennerstrom , Bernd Heber , Bojan Vršnak

We investigate the characteristics and the sources of the slow (< 450 km/s) solar wind during the four years (2006-2009) of low solar activity between Solar Cycles 23 and 24. We use a comprehensive set of in-situ observations in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 E. K. J. Kilpua , M. S. Madjarska , N. Karna , T. Wiegelmann , C. Farrugia , W. Yu , K. Andreeova

Efforts are underway to use high-precision timing of pulsars in order to detect low-frequency gravitational waves. A limit to this technique is the timing noise generated by dispersion in the plasma along the line of sight to the pulsar,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-04 P. Kumar , S. M. White , K. Stovall , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor