Structure in the Solar Corona From Radio Scintillation
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Images of the 30 June 1973 total eclipse were combined with radio scattering and scintillation measurements to show fine ray- like structures within coronal holes. These structures are three orders of magnitude smaller than the smallest filamentary structure seen before.
An asymmetry in the radial variation of electron density above the east and west limbs of the Sun was inferred from centimeter wavelength ranging measurements conducted by Voyager 2 during its 1985 solar conjunction. These older data are compared with white- light coronagraph measurements of the underlying corona collected by the Mark III K-coronameter at the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory.
Estimates of solar wind speed based on previously analyzed 1983.
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This paper summarizes (1) advances in our knowledge of coronal structures inferred from radio propagation measurements, and (2) gains in our understanding of the relationship between radio propagation and white-light coronagraph measurements. Radio propagation measurements confirm that streamers are ray-like structures as depicted in coronagraph pictures, but also reveal a hierarchy of filamentary structures throughout the corona, extending from the size of streamers down to scale sizes as small as about 1 km at the Sun (10(ghe) arcsec). Doppler scintillation measurements, therefore, open a new window on small-scale structure that has long eluded coronagraph measurements. In addition, high precision ranging measurements make it possible to investigate large-scale structures not yet observed in corona graphs, such as plumes in equatorial coronal regions.
Doppler scintillation measurements of a coronal streamer lasting several solar rotations have been
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Density fluctuations based on ISEE 3 plasma measurements in the range 10 minuter to 1 hour have been investigated in the following solar wind flows at 1 AU: coronal hole, interstream, plasma sheet, coronal mass ejection, and interaction region.
This paper presents the results of determining fractional density fluctuations, which requires the measurement of absolute electron density as provided by dual-frequency observations of time delay or ranging conducted by the Ulysses Solar Corona Experiment.
Since radio propagation measurements using either natural or spacecraft radio signals are essentially our only means for probing the solar wind in the vicinity of the Sun, they represent a key tool for studying the interplanetary consequences of solar structure and dynamic phenomena.