Preferred Name

Solar wind

Definitions

A mass outflow, consisting of protons, electrons, and other subatomic particles, expelled constantly from the solar corona at about 500 km per second. The solar mass-loss rate in this phenomenon amounts to about 2 x 10^-14 solar masses per year, or about 106 tons per second.

ID

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#solar-wind

broader

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#solar-physics

definition

A mass outflow, consisting of protons, electrons, and other subatomic particles, expelled constantly from the solar corona at about 500 km per second. The solar mass-loss rate in this phenomenon amounts to about 2 x 10^-14 solar masses per year, or about 106 tons per second.

exactMatch

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1534

prefLabel

Solar wind

related

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#interplanetary-physics

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#stellar-winds

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