How the solar wind is accelerated to its supersonic terminal speed is intimately related to how it is heated.While turbulent dissipation of Alfven waves is generally accepted to be at work to heat the
The sources of the solar wind are still hardly understood.While the fast solar wind originates from coronal holes,the sources for the slow solar wind remain more elusive.
The question of the contribution of CMEs to the solar wind mass flux has been investigated in the past based on Solwind and SMM observations of CMEs and it has been shown that this contribution signif
We identify the coronal sources of the solar winds sampled by the ACE spacecraft during 1999-2008,and examine the in situ solar wind properties as a function of wind sources.
Advances in heliospheric ion composition measurements in the suprathermal energy range over the past two decades have significantly improved our understanding of this particle regime.
Magnetically confined loop structures are one of the most attractive features on the Sun.Loop heating and coronal heating are suggested to be equivalent,and have challenged the community for decades.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Charge,Element,and Isotope Analysis System/Suprathermal Time of Flight(SOHO/CELIAS/STOF) mass spectrometer measures suprathermal ions which are preferentially in
An emerging paradigm for the dissipation of magnetic turbulence in the supersonic solar wind is via localized small-scale reconnection processes,essentially between quasi-2D interacting magnetic islan