Physics
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001ssrv...97..165j&link_type=abstract
Space Science Reviews, v. 97, Issue 1/4, p. 165-168 (2001).
Physics
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Scientific paper
Planar magnetic structures are regions of the solar wind where the magnetic field is oriented parallel to a fixed plane for several hours or more. Discontinuities in the field direction may be encountered during these periods, their surfaces also being parallel to the plane containing the field. A survey of Ulysses magnetic field data returned during 1990 1998 revealed that the solar wind's magnetic field was planar in nature for at least 9% of the time. A survey is presented of planar magnetic structures encountered by Ulysses during two periods when the spacecraft was travelling south from the ecliptic to high southern heliographic latitudes, in 1992 1994 and 1998 2000. The characteristics of the planar magnetic structures encountered during these times of declining and near-maximum solar activity are described, as well as their apparent relationships with interplanetary shocks and heliospheric current sheet crossings. Planar magnetic structures are more common near solar maximum. However, the proportion of structures coinciding with HCS crossings and shocks seems relatively constant.
Balogh André
Jones Geraint H.
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