Measurements of the north-south (Bz) component of the interplanetary field as compiled by King (1975) when organized into yearly histograms of the values of IBz[ reveal the following. (1) The histograms decrease exponentially from a maximum occurrence frequency at the value IBz I = 0. (2) The slope
A solar cycle variation of the interplanetary magnetic field configuration
โ Scribed by Basil P. Tritakis
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 357 KB
- Volume
- 63
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-0938
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โฆ Synopsis
The representation of the sector boundaries, published by Svalgaard (1974Svalgaard ( , 1975) ) in a superposed 27-days Bartels format showed that they have a significant preference to occur in certain days of the solar rotation. Further study of these data, as well as of the polarized days in the vicinity of them, pointed out that during the epoch of extrema of the ll-year cycle there is a well-established 2-sector structure, on the average. On the contrary, a mean 4-sector structure is more prominent during the intermediate years.
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