Heliospheric Physics: Linking the Sun to the Magnetosphere

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006ssrv..124...77z&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, Volume 124, Issue 1-4, pp. 77-90

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Solar Wind, Solar Corona, Coronal Heating

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Research into the heliospheric structure and its relation to the solar boundary is at an impasse. After successful predictions by Parker about the zeroth-order behavior of the heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind, the heliospheric community struggles to make substantive progress toward a predictive model describing the connections between the Sun and its space environment, between the closed corona and the open corona extending to the planets. This is caused by our lack of understanding of the basic processes heating the corona and transporting open magnetic field. We detail the models used to describe this connectivity, from potential field source surface models to full MHD techniques. We discuss the current limitations of both approaches. Finally, we address a recent attempt to advance our understanding beyond these limitations. At this point in time the proposed theory remains controversial in the community, but it addresses important shortcomings of current approaches outlined above.

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