An approximate analytic solution to the coupled problems of coronal heating and solar-wind acceleration
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022377821000052
Abstract: Between the base of the solar corona at $r=r_\textrm {b}$ and the Alfvén critical point at $r=r_\textrm {A}$, where $r$ is heliocentric distance, the solar-wind density decreases by a factor $ \mathop > \limits_\sim 10^5$,… read more here.
Keywords: solar wind; textrm esc; textrm textrm; wind ... See more keywords