HR: 1340h
AN: SH14A-1698    [Abstracts]
TI: Observing Interstellar Neutral Helium from the Ground
AU: * Moise, E
EM: emoise@ifa.hawaii.edu
AF: Institute for Astronomy University of Hawai'i, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States
AU: Kuhn, J
EM: kuhn@ifa.hawaii.edu
AF: Institute for Astronomy University of Hawai'i, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, United States
AB: Cool neutral Helium is now being observed near the Sun. Routinely from sensitive IR spectropolarimetry data using SOLARC at Haleakala and from eclipses, observations reveal scattered photospheric light at 1083nm from He I far above the solar limb. Here we report on observations of this transient coronal constituent that help to understand whether this comes from the coronal "inner source" or from the interstellar Helium wind.
DE: 2126 Heliosphere/interstellar medium interactions
DE: 2129 Interplanetary dust
DE: 7509 Corona
DE: 7599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 7837 Neutral particles (2151)
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting