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Solar wind corotating interaction regions: The third dimension

Gosling, J. T.

A new dimension has recently been added to our understanding of solar wind structure - the dimension out of the solar equatorial plane. Measurements made by the Ulysses space probe at high heliographic latitudes and powerful new 3-dimensional numerical simulations have revealed that solar wind corotating interaction regions (CIRs) tend to be tilte…

Charting the heliosphere in three dimensions

Neugebauer, M.

Space physicists continue their exploration of the solar system's home in the galaxy—that bubble of space, called the heliosphere, carved out of the interstellar medium by the solar wind. Studies of the heliospheric plasma are driven by the search for answers to questions such as: What mechanisms are responsible for the acceleration of the solar w…