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Convective Instability Of The Solar Corona: Why The Solar Wind Blows
Joseph Lemaire
Chapman's (1957) conductive model of the solar corona is characterized by a temperature varying as r**(-2/7) with heliocentric distance r. The density distribution in this non-isot…
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Half a Century of Kinetic Solar Wind Models
Joseph Lemaire
I outline the development of four generations of kinetic models, starting with Chamberlain's solar breeze exospheric model. It is shown why this first kinetic model did not give ap…