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The Origin of the Solar Wind

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The source regions of the solar wind, and its driver and acceleration mechanism, remain key topics of study in heliophysics. With its combination of high sensitivity and high spatial resolution measurements of Doppler flows, mass motions, and plasma composition, the Hinode satellite is uniquely equipped to investigate many of these issues. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the launch of Hinode, we here briefly review some of the scientific highlights on this subject from the mission over the last decade.

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Acknowledgements

Figure 1 taken from Figure 6 in Teriaca et al. (2012). Figure 2 adapted from the original Figures 1 & 3 in Lee et al. (2015). Figure 3 adapted from the original Figures 6 and 8 in Brooks et al. (2015). Courtesy of Nature under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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  1. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

    Kyoung-Sun Lee

  2. College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David H. Brooks

  3. Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Shinsuke Imada

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  1. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

    Toshifumi Shimizu

  2. Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

    Shinsuke Imada

  3. SOLAR-C Project Office National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

    Masahito Kubo

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Lee, KS., Brooks, D.H., Imada, S. (2018). The Origin of the Solar Wind. In: Shimizu, T., Imada, S., Kubo, M. (eds) First Ten Years of Hinode Solar On-Orbit Observatory. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 449. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7742-5_9

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