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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

The ambient solar wind flows and fields influence the complex propagation dynamics of coronal mass ejections in the interplanetary medium and play an essential role in shaping Earth's space weather environment. A critical scientific goal in…

The present paper discusses results of a statistical study of the characteristics of coronal hole (CH) rotation in order to find connections to the internal rotation of the Sun. The goal is to measure CH rotation rates and study their…

Solar wind is frequently categorized based on its respective solar source region. Two well-established categorizations of the coronal hole wind, the scheme based on the charge-state composition, and the scheme based on proton plasma,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Verena Heidrich-Meisner , Sophie Teichmann , Lars Berger , Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

This paper reviews our growing understanding of the physics behind coronal heating (in open-field regions) and the acceleration of the solar wind. Many new insights have come from the last solar cycle's worth of observations and theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Steven R. Cranmer , John L. Kohl , Mari Paz Miralles , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen

We identify coronal holes using a histogram-based intensity thresholding technique and compare their properties to fast solar wind streams at three different points in the heliosphere. The thresholding technique was tested on EUV and X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-13 Larisza D. Krista , Peter T. Gallagher

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

The relationship between the peak velocities of high-speed solar wind streams near Earth and the areas of their solar source regions, i.e., coronal holes, has been known since the 1970s, but it is still physically not well understood. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 Stefan J. Hofmeister , Astrid M. Veronig , Stefaan Poedts , Evangelia Samara , Jasmina Magdalenic

The properties and spatial distribution of large-scale structures of the solar corona determine the observed solar wind structure at 1 au. Coronal holes are a major source of fast solar wind, an important geo-effective component, and appear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 K. H. P. Henadhira Arachchige , B. Perri , A. S. Brun

Solar wind streams, acting as background, govern the propagation of space weather drivers in the heliosphere, which induce geomagnetic storm activities. Therefore, predictions of the solar wind parameters are the core of space weather…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Prateek Mayank , Bhargav Vaidya , D. Chakrabarty

Halo coronal mass ejections (HCMEs) originating from regions close to the center of the Sun are likely to be responsible for severe geomagnetic storms. It is important to predict geo-effectiveness of HCMEs using observations when they are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Michalek , N. Gopalswamy , S. Yashiro

The solar minima between solar cycles 22-23, 23-24 and 24-25 are the best observed minima on record. In situ solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field measurements by the WIND and ACE spacecraft at L1 with one-hour cadence are explored…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 P. J. Steyn , D. Johnson , G. J. J. Botha , S. Régnier

The process by which the Sun affects the terrestrial environment on short timescales is predominately driven by the amount of magnetic reconnection between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. Reconnection occurs most efficiently when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. P. Savani , A. Vourlidas , A. Szabo , M. L. Mays , I. G. Richardson , B. J. Thompson , A. Pulkkinen , R. Evans , T. Nieves-Chinchilla

Over the solar-activity cycle, there are extended periods where significant discrepancies occur between the spacecraft-observed total (unsigned) open magnetic flux and that determined from coronal models. In this article, the total open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-01 S. Wallace , C. N. Arge , M. Pattichis , R. A. Hock-Mysliwiec , C. J. Henney

Studying solar wind conditions is central to forecasting impact of space weather on Earth. Under the assumption that the structure of this wind is constant in time and corotates with the Sun, solar wind and thereby space weather forecasts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-30 Nachiketa Chakraborty , Harriet Turner , Mathew Owens , Matthew Lang

We use magnetograms of 8 solar analogues of ages 30~Myr to 3.6~Gyr obtained from Zeeman Doppler Imaging (ZDI) and taken from the literature, together with two solar magnetograms, to drive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) wind simulations and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Quentin Pognan , Cecilia Garraffo , Ofer Cohen , Jeremy J. Drake

Through its magnetic activity, the Sun governs the conditions in Earth's vicinity, creating space weather events, which have drastic effects on our space- and ground-based technology. One of the most important solar magnetic features…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Fadil Inceoglu , Yuri Y. Shprits , Stephan G. Heinemann , Stefano Bianco

Solar coronal holes are sources of high-speed solar wind streams, which cause persistent geomagnetic activity especially at high latitudes. Here we estimate seasonal solar wind speeds at 1 AU for the last 100 years using high-latitude…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Kalevi Mursula , Lauri Holappa , Renata Lukianova

Forecasting models of the solar wind often rely on simple parameterizations of the magnetic field that ignore the effects of the full magnetic field geometry. In this paper, we present the results of two solar wind prediction models that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Lauren N. Woolsey , Steven R. Cranmer

Parker Solar Probes's (PSP)'s unique orbital path allows us to observe the solar wind closer to the Sun than ever before. Essential to advancing our knowledge of solar wind and energetic particle formation is identifying the sources of PSP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Samantha Wallace , Shaela I. Jones , C. Nick Arge , Nicholeen Viall , Carl J. Henney