HR: 1340h
AN: SH53B-0320    [Abstracts]
TI: A new source of the slow solar wind
AU: * Poduval, B
EM: bala@quake.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, 445 Via Palou HEPL Annex A Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94303 United States
AU: Zhao, X
EM: zhao@quake.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, 445 Via Palou HEPL Annex A Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94303 United States
AB: Slow solar wind has been found to exhibit a high level of variability and the source of its origin is still unclear. Helmet streamers underneath the base of the heliospheric current sheet has been suggested to be the source of slow solar wind, though low latitude coronal holes could be another source. It has been shown recently that the helmet streamers occur between coronal holes of opposite polarity as well as between coronal holes of like polarity. The former is called the bipolar closed field regions and the latter unipolar closed field regions [Zhao and Webb, 2003]. We investigate the association of slow solar wind observed by WIND, ACE and IPS with unipolar closed field regions.
DE: 7514 Energetic particles (2114)
DE: 7524 Magnetic fields
DE: 7538 Solar irradiance
DE: 2479 Solar radiation and cosmic ray effects
DE: 1650 Solar variability
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting