The solar environment has long been studied from Earth by the likes of Richard Carrington and company. Since the dawn of the space age, spacecraft have been sent to space to learn more about the solar..
The solar environment has long been studied from Earth by the likes of Richard Carrington and company. Since the dawn of the space age, spacecraft have been sent to space to learn more about the solar wind. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ulysses spacecraft, launched in 1990, was designed to observe the sun from a polar vantage point. With the instruments on board, Ulysses gave space and plasma physicists a unique opportunity to study the plasma around the sun. We have developed search algorithms to detect shocks and solitons within the solar wind using data from Ulysses.The algorithms can detect a variety of structures in the solar wind and we show, in detail, three events worth further investigation. Applying these algorithms to the 19 year data set from Ulysses will likely reveal many more structures worthy of study.
