Abstract The Galileo Ultraviolet Spectrometer Experiment (UVS) obtained a map of the celestial sphere from interplanetary Lyman-α (IP Lα) on 13,14 December 1990 during the Earth1 encounter. The Galileo spacecraft was near the downwind interstellar axis during the encounter and the map view directions filled the downwind hemisphere. The ratio between the observation and a single scattering model is attributed to a direct measurement of the multiple scattering correction required to model IP Lα in the inner solar system. Analysis of this data set, referred to as an antisun map, shows that the solar wind charge exchange rate with interplanetary gas is 25% less over the solar poles than in the ecliptic at solar maximum. A model of the interstellar wind based on the antisun map observation exhibits a number density of atomic hydrogen far from the solar system, inside the heliosphere, of 0.16 ± 0.05 cm−3.
Solar wind latitude variations and multiple scattering from Galileo interplanetary Lyman-α observations
Advances in Space Research ; 13 , 6 ; 37-40
01.01.1993
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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