EGU22-5466, updated on 04 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5466
EGU General Assembly 2022
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Temporal evolution of the background solar wind throughout the inner heliosphere

Andrea Opitz1, Aniko Timar1, Zoltan Nemeth1, Zsuzsanna Dalya1, Gergely Koban1,2, Nikolett Biro1,2, and Akos Madar1,2
Andrea Opitz et al.
  • 1Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics, Budapest, Hungary (opitz.andrea@wigner.hu)
  • 2Eotvos University, Doctoral School of Physics, Budapest, Hungary

The solar wind properties at a given point in the heliosphere depend strongly on the source surface characteristics, the dynamical effects during propagation and the transient events. We study the background solar wind structures after modelling their propagation throughout the 3-dimensional heliosphere. We remove the transient events from the observations, then apply the ballistic propagation method corrected for pressure gradients at stream interactions. A detailed multi-spacecraft investigation of the radial and latitudinal effects improves our model. These results are applied to study the temporal evolution of the solar wind by excluding the spatial effects through adjusting for the timelag calculated from the spacecraft separations.

How to cite: Opitz, A., Timar, A., Nemeth, Z., Dalya, Z., Koban, G., Biro, N., and Madar, A.: Temporal evolution of the background solar wind throughout the inner heliosphere, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-5466, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5466, 2022.