Studies of the Solar Wind Near the Sun

这笔赠款继续使用无线电传播方法对太阳风进行长期研究。通过观测天文射电源靠近太阳时的闪烁，就有可能观测到太阳风参数。以前的工作集中在距离太阳至少60个太阳半径的大范围三维流动上。在接下来的一段时间里，重点将放在15个太阳半径内的观测和导致风加速的物理过程上。因此，这是一种巧妙的遥感方式，该地区对S/T的关系很重要，但不能通过现场观测来探测。

This grant continues a long term study of the solar wind using radio propagation methods. By observing the scintillation of astronomical radio source as they pass close to the sun it is possible to observe solar wind parameters. Previous work has concentrated on large scale three dimensional flows at least sixty solar radii from the sun. In this next period the emphasis will be on observations inside fifteen solar radii and the physical processes there which lead to the wind's acceleration. As such this is a clever way of remote sensing a region which is important to S/T relations and yet cannot be probed by in situ observations.