A coronal magnetic field model with horizontal volume and sheet currents |
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Authors: | Xuepu Zhao J Todd Hoeksema |
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Affiliation: | (1) Center for Space Science and Astrophysics, Stanford University, 94305 Stanford, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | When globally mapping the observed photospheric magnetic field into the corona, the interaction of the solar wind and magnetic
field has been treated either by imposing source surface boundary conditions that tacitly require volume currents outside
the source surface (Schatten, Wilcox, and Ness, 1969) or by limiting the interaction to thin current sheets between oppositely
directed field regions (Wolfson, 1985). Yet observations and numerical MHD calculations suggest the presence of non-force-free
volume currents throughout the corona as well as thin current sheets in the neighborhoods of the interfaces between closed
and open field lines or between oppositely directed open field lines surrounding coronal helmet-streamer structures. This
work presents a model including both horizontal volume currents and streamer sheet currents. The present model builds on the
magnetostatic equilibria developed by Bogdan and Low (1986) and the current-sheet modeling technique developed by Schatten
(1971). The calculation uses synoptic charts of the line-of-sight component of the photospheric magnetic field measured at
the Wilcox Solar Observatory. Comparison of an MHD model with the calculated model results for the case of a dipole field
and comparison of eclipse observations with calculations for CR 1647 (near solar minimum) show that this horizontal current-current-sheet
model reproduces polar plumes and axes of corona streamers better than the source-surface model and reproduces coronal helmet
structures better than the current-sheet model. |
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