Publications by authors named "Joseph V Hollweg"

Drivers of the solar wind: then and now.

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci

February 2006

Early spacecraft data in the 1960s revealed solar wind properties, which could not be well explained by models in which the electron pressure gradient was the principal accelerating force. The Alfvén waves discovered around 1970 were thought for a while to provide additional energy and momentum, but they ultimately failed to explain the rapid acceleration of the fast wind close to the Sun. By the late 1970s, various data were suggesting the importance of the ion-cyclotron resonance far from the Sun.

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