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The strength of the Sun's polar fields

✍ Scribed by Leif Svalgaard; Thomas L. Duvall; Philip H. Scherrer

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1978
Tongue: English
Weight: 671 KB
Volume: 58
Category: Article
ISSN: 0038-0938
DOI: 10.1007/bf00157268

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✦ Synopsis

The magnetic field strength within the polar caps of the Sun is an important parameter for both the solar activity cycle and for our understanding of the interplanetary magnetic field. Measurements of the line-of-sight component of the magnetic field generally yield 0.1 to 0.2 mT near times of sunspot minimum. In this paper we report measurements of the polar fields made at the Stanford Solar Observatory using the Fe t line A 525.02 nm. We find that the average flux density poleward of 55 ~ latitude is about 0.6 mT peaking to more than 1 mT at the pole and decreasing to 0.2 mT at the polar cap boundary. The total open flux through either polar cap thus becomes about 3 x 10 TM Wb. We also show that observed magnetic field strengths vary as the line-of-sight component of nearly radial fields.

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