AbstractWe present the solar wind plasma parameters obtained from the Wind spacecraft during more than nine years, encompassing almost the whole solar cycle 23. Since its launch in November 1994 Wind has frequently observed the in-ecliptic solar wind upstream of the Earth’s bow shock. The WIND/WAVES thermal noise receiver was specially designed to measure the in situ plasma thermal noise spectra, from which the electron density and temperature can be accurately determined. We present and discuss histograms of such measurements performed from 1994 to 2003. Using these large data sets, we study the density and core temperature variations with solar activity cycle and with different regimes of the solar wind. We confirm the anticorrelation of the electron density with the sunspot number, and obtain a positive correlation of the core temperature, with the sunspot number.


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    Title :

    Solar wind electron density and temperature over solar cycle 23: Thermal noise measurements on Wind


    Contributors:
    Issautier, K. (author) / Perche, C. (author) / Hoang, S. (author) / Lacombe, C. (author) / Maksimovic, M. (author) / Bougeret, J.-L. (author) / Salem, C. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 35 , 12 ; 2141-2146


    Publication date :

    2005-04-25


    Size :

    6 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English