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Rifai Habbal et al. 1995
Rifai Habbal, S., Esser, R., Guhathakurta, M. and Fisher, R.R. (1995). Flow properties of the solar wind derived from a two-fluid model with constraints from white light and in situ interplanetary observations. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL01064. issn: 0094-8276.

We derive the flow properties of the solar wind in coronal holes using a two-fluid model constrained by density profiles inferred from simultaneous space-based SPARTAN 201-01 and ground-based Mauna Loa White Light coronagraph observations, and by in situ interplanetary measurements. Also used as a guide is the hydrostatic temperature profile derived from the density gradient. Density profiles are inferred between 1.16 and 5.5 Rs, for two different density structures observed along the line of sight in a polar coronal hole. The model computations that fit remarkably well the empirical constraints yield a supersonic flow at 2.3 Rs for the less dense ambient coronal hole, and at 3.4 Rs for the denser structures. The novel result that emerges from these fits is a proton temperature twice as large as the electron temperature in the inner corona, reaching a peak of 2¿106 K at 2 Rs. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Interplanetary Physics, Solar wind plasma, Interplanetary Physics, Sources of the solar wind, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Corona
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Geophysical Research Letters
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