Mikhail Vokhmyanin and Nadezhda Zolotova 2022 ApJ 928 56, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5630 Long-term north–south asymmetry of the heliospheric current sheet |
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Author: | Vokhmyanin, Mikhail1,2; Zolotova, Nadezhda1 |
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1Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 198504, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2Space physics and astronomy research unit, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, Fl-90014 Oulu, Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 3.1 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2022050432533 |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing,
2022
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Publish Date: | 2022-05-04 |
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AbstractIn this paper, we evaluate the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) north–south asymmetry using the ecliptical sector structure of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) reconstructed since the second half of the 19th century. During the last five solar cycles, the inferred IMF polarities fairly reproduce the observed dominance of the sectors with the polarity of the northern solar hemisphere, i.e., the prolonged southward shift of the HCS. For the presatellite era, we found that the northward shift of the HCS was more common in cycles 10, 15, and 17–19, and the southward HCS shift was more common in cycles 9, 11–14, and 16. We also analyzed the north–south asymmetry in sunspot group numbers since 1749 and found that the northern hemisphere dominated in cycles 2–3, 7–9, and 15–20, and the southern hemisphere activity was stronger in cycles 4, 9–14, and 21–24. Moreover, other solar phenomena bear similar long-term asymmetry variations. The regularity of these variations is not clear. According to the available proxies of the solar data, the dominance of the northern hemisphere is found in the ascending phase of the secular solar cycle, and the dominance of the southern hemisphere coincides with the descending phase. see all
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Astrophysical journal |
ISSN: | 0004-637X |
ISSN-E: | 1538-4357 |
ISSN-L: | 0004-637X |
Volume: | 928 |
Issue: | 1 |
Article number: | 56 |
DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5630 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5630 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
115 Astronomy and space science |
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