Search for long term variations of the interplanetary magnetic field
β Scribed by F. Mariani; L. Diodato; G. Moreno
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 568 KB
- Volume
- 45
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-0938
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β¦ Synopsis
A statistical study is made of the long term variations of the interplanetary magnetic field parameters collected in the years 1964 to 1973 by 12 spacecraft (IMP's, Pioneers and HEOS). Although temporal fluctuations are observed on field components and magnitudes no clear solar cycle variation is found. The same conclusion holds for the statistical distributions and variances of these parameters. A search for possible heliographic latitude effects on the field also leads to a negative conclusion.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
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
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 vi