The heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind during the solar cycle

Details The heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind during the solar cycle The heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind during the solar cycle

Mar 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009iaus..257..109f&link_type=abstract

Universal Heliophysical Processes, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 257, p. 109-120

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Solar Magnetic Field, Heliospheric Magnetic Field, Coronal Processes, Solar Wind, Solar Cycle

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The heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind are behaving differently in the current solar minimum, compared to the previous minimum. The radial component of the heliospheric magnetic field, and thus the average value of the component of the solar magnetic field that opens into the heliosphere, the so-called open magnetic flux of the Sun, is lower than it was in the previous solar minimum; in fact, lower than in any previous solar minimum for which there are good spacecraft observations. The mass flux, the ram pressure, and the coronal electron temperature as measured by solar wind charge states are also lower in the current minimum compared to the previous one. This situation provides an opportunity to test some of the concepts for the behavior of the heliospheric magnetic field and the solar wind that have been developed; to improve these theories, and to construct a theory for the solar wind that accounts for the observed behavior throughout the solar cycle, including the current unusual solar minimum.

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