The Solar Wind Power from Magnetic Flux

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsh13b1559s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SH13B-1559

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2134 Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, 2164 Solar Wind Plasma, 2169 Solar Wind Sources

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Observations of the fast, high latitude solar wind throughout Ulysses' three orbits show that solar wind power correlates remarkably well with the Sun's total open magnetic flux. These observations support a recent model of the solar wind energy and particle sources, where magnetic flux emergence naturally leads to an energy flux proportional to the strength of large-scale magnetic field. This model has also been shown to be consistent with X-ray observations of the Sun and a variety of other stars over 12 decades of magnetic flux. The observations reported here show that the Sun delivers ~ 600 kW/Wb to power the solar wind, and that this power to magnetic flux relation has been extremely stable over the last 15 years. Thus, the same law that governs energy released in the corona and from other stars also applies to the total energy in the solar wind.

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