Coronal Radio Occultation Experiments with the Helios Solar Probes: Correlation/Spectral Analysis of Faraday Rotation Fluctuations

Efimov A. I., Lukanina L. A., Rogashkova A. I., Samoznaev L. N., Chashei I. V., Bird M. K., Pätzold M. Coronal Radio Occultation Experiments with the Helios Solar Probes: Correlation/Spectral Analysis of Faraday Rotation Fluctuations. Solar Physics , 2015 , 290 (9). С. 2397-2408. ISSN 0038-0938

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Официальный URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-015-0687-y

Аннотация

The coronal Faraday rotation (FR) experiments using the linearly polarized signals of the Helios-1 and Helios-2 interplanetary probes remain a unique investigation of the magnetic field of the solar corona and its aperiodic and quasi-periodic variations. The unexpectedly long lifetime of these spacecraft (1974 – 1986) enabled studies from very deep solar-activity minimum (1975 – 1976) into the strong activity maximum (1979). Important experimental data were also obtained for the rising (1977 – 1978) and declining (1980 – 1984) branches of the solar-activity cycle. Previous publications have presented results of the initial experimental data only for coronal-sounding experiments performed during individual solar-conjunction opportunities. This report is a more detailed analysis of the Helios FR measurements for the entire period 1975 – 1984. Radial profiles of the FR fluctuation (FRF) intensity recorded during the deepest solar-activity minimum in 1975 – 1976 are shown to differ distinctly from those during the strong solar-activity maximum in 1979. In particular, the decrease of the FRF intensity with solar-offset distance is substantially steeper in 1979 than in 1975/1976. In all cases, however, the FR data reveal quasi-periodic wave-like fluctuations in addition to the random background with a power-law spectrum. The dominant period of these fluctuations, recorded during 35 % of the total measurement time, is found to be close to five minutes. Large-scale FR variations at considerably longer periods (1.1 – 2.7 hours) were observed during 20 % of the measurement time. Knowing the intrinsic motion of the radio ray path from spacecraft to Earth and making a reasonable assumption about the solar-wind velocity, FRF observations at widely spaced ground stations have been used to estimate the velocity of coronal Alfvén waves. The velocity values range between 290 and 550 km s−1 at heliocentric distances between 3.5 and 4.5 R⊙ and are marginally lower (150 – 450 km s−1) at distances between 5.5 and 6.5 R⊙. Occasional FR variations with a period near 160 minutes and harmonics with periods 60, 30, and 20 minutes were also observed.

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Авторы на русском. ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНО ДЛЯ АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ ПУБЛИКАЦИЙ!: Ефимов А.И., Луканина Л.А., Рогашкова А.И., Самознаев Л.Н., Чашей И.В., Бёрд М.К., Петцольд М.
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