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High-speed solar wind surfs magnetic waves

The high-speed component of the solar wind may get its oomph by hitching a ride on magnetic waves in the sun's outer atmosphere.

References:

Cranmer, S.R., G.B. Field, and J.L. Kohl. 1999. Spectroscopic constraints on models of ion cyclotron resonance heating in the polar solar corona and high-speed solar wind. Astrophysical Journal 518(June 20):937.

Further Readings:

Cowen, R. 1996. How to light a fire. Science News 150(Aug. 31):136.

Sources:

Steven R. Cranmer
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Joseph V. Hollweg
University of New Hampshire
SSC, Morse Hall
Durham, NH 03824

John L. Kohl
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 3, July 17, 1999, p. 38. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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