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Full-Sun observations for identifying the source of the slow solar wind

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Communications, January 2015
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Title
Full-Sun observations for identifying the source of the slow solar wind
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Nature Communications, January 2015
DOI 10.1038/ncomms6947
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David H. Brooks, Ignacio Ugarte-Urra, Harry P. Warren

Abstract

Fast (>700 km s(-1)) and slow (~400 km s(-1)) winds stream from the Sun, permeate the heliosphere and influence the near-Earth environment. While the fast wind is known to emanate primarily from polar coronal holes, the source of the slow wind remains unknown. Here we identify possible sites of origin using a slow solar wind source map of the entire Sun, which we construct from specially designed, full-disk observations from the Hinode satellite, and a magnetic field model. Our map provides a full-Sun observation that combines three key ingredients for identifying the sources: velocity, plasma composition and magnetic topology and shows them as solar wind composition plasma outflowing on open magnetic field lines. The area coverage of the identified sources is large enough that the sum of their mass contributions can explain a significant fraction of the mass loss rate of the solar wind.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 4%
China 1 2%
Unknown 46 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 35%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 20%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Student > Postgraduate 2 4%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 4%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 10 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 34 69%
Chemistry 2 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Unknown 11 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 78. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 March 2017.
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#493,125
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#6,415
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#80
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