Transition from the Sector Zone to the Unipolar Zone in the Heliosheath: Voyager 2 Magnetic Field Observations

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Aug 2011

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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 737, Issue 1, article id. 35 (2011).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Magnetic Fields, Solar Wind, Sun: Heliosphere

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The magnetic polarity pattern observed by Voyager 2 (V2) evolved with time from a nearly equal mixture of positive and negative polarity sectors in the sector zone from 2007.00 to 2007.67 to nearly uniform positive polarity (magnetic fields directed away from the Sun) in the unipolar zone from 2009.6 to 2010.3. This change was caused by the decreasing latitudinal extent of the sector zone, when the minimum extent of the heliospheric current sheet moved northward toward the solar equator as the solar activity associated with solar cycle 23 decreased a minimum in 2010. In the heliosheath, the distribution of daily averages of the magnetic field strength B was lognormal in the sector zone from 2008.83 to 2009.57 and Gaussian in the unipolar zone from 2009.57 to 2010.27. The distribution of daily increments of B was a Tsallis distribution (q-Gaussian distribution) with q = 1.66 ± 0.01 in the sector zone and ≈Gaussian (q = 1.01 ± 0.29) in the unipolar zone. The unipolar region appears to be in a relatively undisturbed equilibrium state.

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