Heliospheric current sheet inclinations predicted from source surface maps

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Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....99.2531s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A2, p. 2531-2536

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Geophysics

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Current Sheets, Heliosphere, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Atmospheric Models, Geophysics, Magnetic Field Configurations, Slopes, Solar Cycles

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The inclinations of the neutral line at the ecliptic plane derived from source surface model maps of coronal fields are measured for the interval from June 1976 to March 1992. The mean and median values of 53 deg and 57 deg are close to the average inclinations determined earlier from minimum variance analyses of solar wind measurements at sector boundaries, but the mode falls in the 80 deg - 90 deg bin. This result, which is based on the model assumptions implicit in deriving the source surface maps, predicts that the heliospheric current sheet typically intersects the ecliptic plane nearly at right angles, even without steepening by stream interaction regions. High inclinations dominate the solar cycle for about 7 years around solar maximum. Dips to lower inclination occur near solar minimum, but high variance admits a wide range of inclinations throughout the cycle. Compared to the smooth solar cycle variation of the maximum latitudinal excursion of the neutral line, often treated as the tilt angle of a flat heliospheric current sheet, the noisy variation of the inclinations reflects the degree to which the neutral line deviates from a sine wave, implying warps and corrugations in the current sheet. About a third of the time the neutral line so deviates that it doubles back in longitude.

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