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The dominant large-scale variations in the sola...

The dominant large-scale variations in the solar wind speed observed in the outer helios...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Beginning in late 2018 through early 2023, an e...

Beginning in late 2018 through early 2023, an extended interval of slow solar wind speed...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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The solar wind speed gradually decreases with i...

The solar wind speed gradually decreases with increasing distance from the Sun and becom...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Few missions have collected solar wind measurem...

Few missions have collected solar wind measurements in the outer heliosphere. All of the...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Slower wind was observed at 1 au within the cor...

Slower wind was observed at 1 au within the corresponding timeframe that NH observed slo...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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When comparing solar rotation–averaged speeds i...

When comparing solar rotation–averaged speeds in the inner and outer heliosphere, the gr...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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The long slow wind interval observed by NH in t...

The long slow wind interval observed by NH in the outer heliospheric ecliptic occurred w...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Simulation results reproduce the large-scale fe...

Simulation results reproduce the large-scale features of the NH solar wind speed measure...

Heather A. Elliott et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Comparison of the predicted core density–radius...

Comparison of the predicted core density–radius relation to the best-fit parameters give...

Yifei Yang and Weikang Lin, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Diversity of rotation curves predicted from FIP...

Diversity of rotation curves predicted from FIPs with different levels of central degene...

Yifei Yang and Weikang Lin, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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The effect of baryons in the inner core is negl...

The effect of baryons in the inner core is negligible. The plot shows the normalized DM ...

Yifei Yang and Weikang Lin, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Halo density profiles normalized by the central...

Halo density profiles normalized by the central density. Curves are labeled by the centr...

Yifei Yang and Weikang Lin, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Schematic illustration of the proposed structur...

Schematic illustration of the proposed structure of a cored DM halo under the DID mechan...

Yifei Yang and Weikang Lin, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Effects of baryons on the DM outer core. Note t...

Effects of baryons on the DM outer core. Note that any such effect only alters the detai...

Yifei Yang and Weikang Lin, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Relation between the planetary magnetosphere si...

Relation between the planetary magnetosphere size and the stellar mass for the JPO89 mod...

Yasmmin F. Tamburus et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Same relation as Figure 3, but for the E. N. Pa...

Same relation as Figure 3, but for the E. N. Parker (1958) wind model. It also shows the...

Yasmmin F. Tamburus et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Velocity profiles of the HBC359 star considerin...

Velocity profiles of the HBC359 star considering the E. N. Parker (1958) and JPO89 model...

Yasmmin F. Tamburus et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Ratio of X-ray to bolometric luminosity log(LX⋆...

Ratio of X-ray to bolometric luminosity log(LX⋆/Lbol) as a function of stellar age, comp...

Yasmmin F. Tamburus et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Comparison between the planetary magnetospheric...

Comparison between the planetary magnetospheric size and the star’s age for the E. N. Pa...

Yasmmin F. Tamburus et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Upper panel: Ca II H and K line luminosities vs...

Upper panel: Ca II H and K line luminosities vs. bolometric luminosity, color coded by p...

Yasmmin F. Tamburus et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Statistical relationships between solar wind pa...

Statistical relationships between solar wind parameters and ion precipitation fluxes acr...

Xinzhi Qiu et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Orbit-by-orbit variations of solar wind paramet...

Orbit-by-orbit variations of solar wind parameters and ion precipitation fluxes for CIR ...

Xinzhi Qiu et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Orbit-by-orbit variations of solar wind paramet...

Orbit-by-orbit variations of solar wind parameters and ion precipitation fluxes for CME ...

Xinzhi Qiu et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Orbit-by-orbit variations of solar wind paramet...

Orbit-by-orbit variations of solar wind parameters and ion precipitation fluxes for DSW ...

Xinzhi Qiu et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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Overview of the CIR Case 1 event. From top to b...

Overview of the CIR Case 1 event. From top to bottom, the subplots show (a) the magnetic...

Xinzhi Qiu et al, The Astrophysical Journal 1001 1

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