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The solar wind is one of the main factors which, along with electromagnetic radiation from the Sun and planets, determines physical conditions in the circumsolar space. This is a more or less continuous plasma flow which is generated in the upper corona of the Sun and carries magnetic fields of solar origin. The first indications of the existence of some corpuscular flow, directed from the Sun, in interplanetary space were obtained in the last century (e.g., see Brandt, 1970; for review). The continuous character of the solar wind was experimentally proved by Biermann (1951, 1952) by an investigation of the behaviour of comet tails. This result was also confirmed indirectly by observations of the modulation effects of galactic cosmic rays and by data on geomagnetic activity and aurorae.
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Toptygin, I.N. (1985). Physical Properties of the Interplanetary Medium. In: Cosmic Rays in Interplanetary Magnetic Fields. Geophysics and Astrophysics Monographs, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5257-7_1
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