Open magnetic fields on the Sun and solar wind parameters at the Earth's orbit

Details Open magnetic fields on the Sun and solar wind parameters at the Earth's orbit Open magnetic fields on the Sun and solar wind parameters at the Earth's orbit

Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011arep...55..284o&link_type=abstract

Astronomy Reports, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp.284-291

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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It is shown that the parameters of the solar-wind magnetic field are determined by regions in coronal holes at distances of 1.1-1.4 solar radii, where the field lines are radial at low heights. Expanding further in a narrow nozzle or funnel, the field lines become radial throughout the unipolar region at 2.5 solar radii. Hence, the traditional approach of comparing the characteristics of the interplanetary field at the Earth's orbit and at the corresponding helio-projection point on the Sun is not quite correct. It gives good results for the signs and sector structure of the field; however, the magnitude of the field is formed in a more extensive area. Taking this into account, we can correlate the field values on the Sun with the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), and thus explain the absence of weak fields in the vicinity of the IMF neutral line (the two-peaked nature of the distribution).

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