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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 1996

Observations of a sky Lyman α groove related to enhanced solar wind mass flux in the neutral sheet

Jean-Loup Bertaux
Eric Quémerais

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We report several observations of the Lα interplanetary emission recorded by a photometer flown in 1977 on board the soviet spacecraft Prognoz‐5. The Prognoz scans sampled emission in a plane perpendicular to the sun‐spacecraft line and also traversed the Lα maximum emission region (MER), a region centered a few AU from the Sun on the upstream interstellar‐flow axis. These scans reveal the existence of a 10% decrease in intensity centered near the ecliptic plane and about 30° wide. All the dips form a new feature of the interplanetary emission, a “groove” aligned approximately with the ecliptic plane. This groove is present only near the upwind direction, and is interpreted as the result of enhanced ionisation of interstellar H by charge‐exchange with the solar wind in a sheet of approximately 30° width in latitude around the average position of the neutral sheet, at this time of solar minimum.
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Jean-Loup Bertaux, Eric Quémerais, Rosine Lallement. Observations of a sky Lyman α groove related to enhanced solar wind mass flux in the neutral sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 1996, 23 (25), pp.3675-3678. ⟨10.1029/96GL03475⟩. ⟨insu-04748942⟩
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