Oct 27 – 31, 2025
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Investigation of solar wind source regions using inner and middle corona observations

Oct 28, 2025, 3:45 PM
15m
Idun

Idun

Oral CD2 - All about the solar wind CD2 - All about the solar wind

Speaker

Arpit Kumar Shrivastav (Southwest Research Institute)

Description

Large-scale coronal structures, such as streamers and pseudostreamers, are considered potential sources of the slow solar wind, contributing to its structured nature and variability. However, due to the lack of high-resolution coronal observations, the processes driving the dynamics of these structures and their role in the slow wind are not yet fully understood. In this study, we analyzed a pseudostreamer observed using the Full Sun Imager (FSI), with its footpoints captured by the High Resolution Imager (HRIEUV), offering a resolution of approximately 300 km. We identified the presence of propagating disturbances (PDs) near the footpoints, extending to heights of 50–60 Mm in several open strands. The projected velocities of these PDs ranged from 27 to 250 km/s, with an average of 121 km/s. Additionally, we identified distinct periodicities with significant power, specifically, 8.6, 9.2, and 16.5 minutes in these PDs. We also obtained faint signatures of flows in the FSI imaging time series. These PDs may play a role in transporting plasma to the outer corona, potentially contributing to the solar wind.

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Primary author

Arpit Kumar Shrivastav (Southwest Research Institute)

Co-authors

Mr Rohan Bose (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences) Mr Momchil E. Molnar (Southwest Research Institute) Mr Joseph Plowman (Southwest Research Institute) Mr Vaibhav Pant (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences) Mr Laksmi Pradeep Chitta (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) Donald M. Hassler (Southwest Research Institute) Marelina Mierla (Royal Observatory of Belgium) Mr David Berghamans, (Royal Observatory of Belgium) Andrei N. Zhukov (Royal Observatory of Belgium) Hardi Peter (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) Dipankar Banerjee (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology)

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