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Origin and Acceleration of Fast and Slow Solar Wind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Giannina Poletto
Giannina Poletto*
Affiliation:
INAF —- Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Largo Fermi, 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy

Abstract

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Before the advent of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO, launched in 1995), we had little information on how coronal plasma gets accelerated to the high speed measured in situ. The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) on SOHO, acquiring UV data over the first few solar radii, a region unexplored in this spectral range, allowed us to build a profile of the outflow plasma speed vs. heliocentric distance, based on empirical constraints. Still, much has to be learnt about the behavior of solar wind in the extended corona. In the following, after briefly reviewing the general properties of the solar wind, I'll focus on controversial issues — like the identification of the sources of fast and slow wind, and the acceleration of fast vs. slow wind streams — and I'll illustrate recent contributions to the solution of these problems.

Type
Part 11: Open Magnetic Structures and Winds
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 219: Stars as Suns : Activity, Evolution and Planets , 2004 , pp. 563 - 574
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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