The Solar Wind
The Solar Wind
This is a Demonstration of the Parker model (Parker 1958) for the solar wind. The plot shows the solar wind flux velocity as a function of the distance from the Sun. The temperature is assumed to be constant. You can change its value to see how it influences the resulting velocity. Distance is expressed in astronomical units (1 AU = 149 598 000 km). The blue dashed line indicates where the velocity equals the sound speed. The black dashed line shows the location of the Earth.
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