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White corona images are analyzed based on the calibrated data of the LASCO-C2/SOHO instrument (processing level 1) and the solar wind (SW) parameters with hourly and minute resolutions on the Wind spacecraft. The quasistationary events, excluding coronal mass ejections and their manifestations in SW are studied. It has been indicated that the angular dimensions and relative variations in the density of the streamer belt segments remain almost unchanged over the entire distance from the Sun to the Earth’s orbit. In the Earth’s orbit, the ray structure of the belt streamer manifests itself as sharp (with steep fronts lasting several minutes and less) peaks (of several hours in duration) of the solar wind plasma density with maximal values N max > 10 cm−3.
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Eselevich, V.G. Eselevich, 2006, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2006, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 811–824.
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Eselevich, M.V., Eselevich, V.G. Manifestations of the ray structure of the coronal streamer belt in the form of sharp peaks of the solar wind plasma density in the Earth’s orbit. Geomagn. Aeron. 46, 770–782 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793206060132
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