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Neugebauer, M.

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NASA NTRS1998

The Three-Dimenstional Solar Wind at Solar Activity Minimum

In late 1997, the Ulysses spacecraft completed its first orbit around the Sun, observing the properties of the heliosphere at all latitudes between 80 degrees South and 80 degrees North. Because the mission occurred during a period of near-minimum solar activity, the configuration of the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field were particularly simple, thus allowing confident comparisons between the properties of the polar corona observed by instruments of the Spartan and SOHO spacecraft and the resulting properties of the solar wind.

Solar Wind Ulysses Solar Activity polar corona↗
NASA NTRS1998

The Solar Wind-Inner Heliosphere

The Solar wind in the inner heliosphere, inside approximately 5 AU, has been almost fully characterized by the addition of the high heliographic latitude Ulysses mission to the many low latitude inner heliosphere missions that preceded it. The two major omissions are the high latitude solar wind at solar maximum, which will be measured during the second Ulysses polar passages, and the solar wind near the Sun, which could be analyzed by a Solar Probe mission. Here, existing knowledge of the global solar wind in the inner heliosphere is summarized in the context of the new results from Ulysses.

Suess, S. T.↗
NASA NTRS1998

Ulysses-UVCS Coordinated Observations

We present results from coordinated observations in which instruments on SOHO and Ulysses were used to measure the density and flow speed of plasma at the Sun and to again measure the same properties of essentially the same plasma in the solar wind. Plasma was sampled by Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) at 3.5 and 4.5 solar radii and by Ulysses at 5 AU. Data were acquired during a nearly 2 week period in May-June 1997 at a latitude of 9-10 degrees north of the equator, on the east limb and, hence, in the streamer belt region and the source location of slow wind. Density and outflow plasma speed are compared, in order to check for preservation of the near Sun characteristics in the interplanetary medium. By chance, Ulysses was at the very northern edge of the visible streamer belt. Nevertheless, no evidence of fast wind, or mixing with fast wind coming from the northern polar coronal hole was evident at Ulysses. The morphology of the streamer belt was the same at the beginning and end of the observation period, but changed markedly during the middle of the period. A corresponding change in density (but not flow speed) was noted at Ulysses.

Suess, Steven T.↗
NASA NTRS1997

A Statistical Study of CME Plasma Flows

Many studies of the interplanetary manifestations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) have focused on the shock driver gas or on the regions that display a flux-rope magnetic topology. Somewhat less attention has been paid to investigating how the solar wind returns to its ambient, pre-CME condition.

Coronal Mass Ejections Flux-rope Plasma Flows↗
NASA NTRS1997

The Spatial Structure of the Solar Wind and Comparisons with Solar Data and Models

Data obtained by insturments on the Ulysses spacecraft during its rapid sweep through >90 degrees of solar latitude, crossing the solar equator in early 1995, were combined with data obtained near Earth by the WIND spacecraft to study the spatial structure of the solar wind and to compare with different models of the interplanetary field derived from solar observations.

Solar↗
NASA NTRS1996

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comet lander Comet P/Wirtanen cometary nucleus com↗