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  • ASTROPHYSICS  (3)
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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: The topology of the magnetic field in the heliosheath is illustrated using plots of the field lines. It is shown that the Archimedean spiral inside the terminal shock is rotated back in the heliosheath into nested spirals that are advected in the direction of the interstellar wind. The 22-year solar magnetic cycle is imprinted onto these field lines in the form of unipolar magnetic envelopes surrounded by volumes of strongly mixed polarity. Each envelope is defined by the changing tilt of the heliospheric current sheet, which is in turn defined by the boundary of unipolar high-latitude regions on the Sun that shrink to the pole at solar maximum and expand to the equator at solar minimum. The detailed shape of the envelopes is regulated by the solar wind velocity structure in the heliosheath.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 100; A3; p. 3463-3471
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: A kinematic model of the interplanetary magnetic field in the heliosheath beyond the solar wind terminal shock is presented in order to evaluate the possible importance of MHD effects in that region of space. The need for this evaluation arises because the interplanetary magnetic field is compressed across the terminal shock and further amplified by the decreasing flow speed beyond the shock. Streamlines which approach the stagnation point before turning in the downstream direction lead to the strongest effects due to the extreme slowing of the solar wind and consequent compression of the embedded magnetic field. The magnetic volume force therefore cannot be neglected on streamlines that approach the heliopause in the upstream direction, where the volume containing them is a large fraction of the overall of the heliosheath in the upstream direction. The increase in the magnetic pressure may act to bring the upstream terminal shock significantly closer to the sun, potentially reconciling a conflict between models and observations.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361); 250; 2, Oc
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2019-08-28
    Description: Modeling the kinematic magnetic field in the solar wind beyond the terminal shock shows that a ridge of magnetic pressure is produced just inside the heliopause. This ridge is sufficiently large that it will cause the layer immediately inside the heliopause to thicken, pushing the heliopause outward and slightly affecting its position relative to the terminal shock. However, the ridge is far too thin to cause an important change in the distance of the terminal shock from the sun. We show that these conclusions are a simple consequence of geometrical arguments for incompressible, steady, laminar flows. Moreover, the heliopause magnetic field originates on the terminal shock near the substagnation point. Consequently, the heliospheric current sheet field reversals are painted onto the inside surface of the heliopause. Alternate magnetic polarity strips will be oppositely directed relative to the interstellar magnetic field, implying that reconnection inevitably occurs on a fine some near the nose of the heliosphere. This suggests that the heliopause is a leaky, diffuse surface.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 98; A9; p. 15,169-15,176.
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