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The Gradual Slowing of the Solar Wind in the Outer Heliosphere

  • Authors: Heather A. Elliott, Tae K. Kim, John D. Richardson, Justyna M. Sokół, Bishwas L. Shrestha, Eric J. Zirnstein, David J. McComas, Paweł Swaczyna, Merav Opher, Maher A. Dayeh, Matthew E. Hill, Andrew Poppe, S. Alan Stern, Pontus C. Brandt, Kelsi Singer, Joel Parker, Anne J. Verbiscer

Heather A. Elliott et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1001 .

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Caption: Figure 3.

Slower wind was observed at 1 au within the corresponding timeframe that NH observed slow wind in the outer heliosphere. This is a time series of the solar wind speed measurements for the normalized collective OMNI dataset of solar wind observations collected near Earth in the same time range as shown in Figure 2 and propagated out to the distance of NH. The black curve is the propagated 1 hr speed measurements. Solar rotation averages (25.38 days) are shown purple and green, where the purple color indicates when NH was in the same longitudinal quadrant (within ±45° deg) as the OMNI observations collected near Earth. The pink horizontal line at 400 km s−1 is shown for comparison with Figure 2. The bottom panel shows the longitudinal separation between NH and Earth.

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