The Dipole-Quadrupole Cycle of the Background Solar Magnetic Field

Details The Dipole-Quadrupole Cycle of the Background Solar Magnetic Field The Dipole-Quadrupole Cycle of the Background Solar Magnetic Field

Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995soph..159...29m&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 159, Issue 1, pp.29-44

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The evolution of the background magnetic field with the solar cycle has been studied using the dipole-quadrupole magnetic energy behaviour in a cycle. The combined energy of the axisymmetric dipole, non-axisymmetric quadrupole, and equatorial dipole is relatively lowly variable over the solar cycle. The dipole field changed sign when the quadrupole field was near a maximum, andvice versa. A conceptual picture involving four meridional magnetic polarity sectors proposed to explain these features may be in agreement with equatorial coronal hole observations. The rate of sector rotation is estimated to be 8 heliographic degrees per year faster than the Carrington rotation (P = 27.23d synodic). Polarity boundaries of sectors located 180° apart show meridional migrations in one direction, while the boundaries of the other two sectors move in the opposite direction. A simple model of how the magnetic field energy varies, subject to specifying reasonable initial photospheric magnetic and velocity field patterns, follows the observed evolution of the dipole and quadrupole field energies quite nicely.

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