Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsh31c..03c&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SH31C-03
Physics
2101 Coronal Mass Ejections (7513), 2134 Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, 2162 Solar Cycle Variations (7536), 7524 Magnetic Fields, 7526 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7835)
Scientific paper
The concept of open magnetic flux can be ambiguous since, ultimately, all magnetic flux is closed. The concept is useful, however, for discussing distributions of types of magnetic flux in given domains and essential for discussing magnetic flux budgets. Conflicts over the concept arise between solar and heliospheric physicists owing to differing locations of the boundaries of their problems. What is open flux to a solar physicist may well be closed flux to a heliospheric physicist. The problem is not trivial because it bears upon the means by which the solar field reverses its polarity and the heliospheric field varies in strength through the course of the solar cycle. Because both solar and heliospheric models of these processes successfully match a wide range of observations, it seems likely that a synthesis view can be reached. Steps in that direction will be outlined, taking into account the recently detected decline in heliospheric field strength at solar minimum.
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