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Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere
This paper focuses on the interactions between the fast solar wind from coronal holes and the intervening slower solar wind, leading to the creation of stream interaction regions that corotate with the Sun and may persist for many solar rotations. Stream interaction regions have been observed near 1...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390897/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30872980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41116-017-0011-z |
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description | This paper focuses on the interactions between the fast solar wind from coronal holes and the intervening slower solar wind, leading to the creation of stream interaction regions that corotate with the Sun and may persist for many solar rotations. Stream interaction regions have been observed near 1 AU, in the inner heliosphere (at [Formula: see text] –1 AU) by the Helios spacecraft, in the outer and distant heliosphere by the Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and out of the ecliptic by Ulysses, and these observations are reviewed. Stream interaction regions accelerate energetic particles, modulate the intensity of Galactic cosmic rays and generate enhanced geomagnetic activity. The remote detection of interaction regions using interplanetary scintillation and white-light imaging, and MHD modeling of interaction regions will also be discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-63908972019-03-12 Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere Richardson, Ian G. Living Rev Sol Phys Review Article This paper focuses on the interactions between the fast solar wind from coronal holes and the intervening slower solar wind, leading to the creation of stream interaction regions that corotate with the Sun and may persist for many solar rotations. Stream interaction regions have been observed near 1 AU, in the inner heliosphere (at [Formula: see text] –1 AU) by the Helios spacecraft, in the outer and distant heliosphere by the Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and out of the ecliptic by Ulysses, and these observations are reviewed. Stream interaction regions accelerate energetic particles, modulate the intensity of Galactic cosmic rays and generate enhanced geomagnetic activity. The remote detection of interaction regions using interplanetary scintillation and white-light imaging, and MHD modeling of interaction regions will also be discussed. Springer International Publishing 2018-01-26 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6390897/ /pubmed/30872980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41116-017-0011-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Richardson, Ian G. Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere |
title | Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere |
title_full | Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere |
title_fullStr | Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere |
title_full_unstemmed | Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere |
title_short | Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere |
title_sort | solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390897/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30872980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41116-017-0011-z |
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