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Highlight Results from Ulysses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

R. G. Marsden
R. G. Marsden*
Affiliation:
Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Abstract

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Launched in October 1990, the ESA-NASA Ulysses mission has conducted the very first survey of the heliosphere within 5 AU of the Sun over the full range of heliolatitudes. The first polar passes took place in 1994 and 1995, enabling Ulysses to characterise the global structure of the heliosphere at solar minimum, when the corona adopts its simplest configuration. The most important findings to date include a confirmation of the uniform nature of the high-speed (~ 750 km s−1) solar wind flow from the polar coronal holes, filling two-thirds of the volume of the inner heliosphere; the sharp boundary, existing from the chromosphere through the corona, between fast and slow solar wind streams; the latitude independence of the radial component of the heliospheric magnetic field; the lower-than-expected latitude gradient of galactic and anomalous cosmic rays; the continued existence of recurrent increases in the flux of low-energy ions and electrons up to the highest latitudes.

Type
Session VI: The Solar Wind and Heliosphere
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 203: Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from Soho and Other Space Missions , 2001 , pp. 525 - 532
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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