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Nerney et al. 1995
Nerney, S., Suess, S.T. and Schmahl, E.J. (1995). Flow downstream of the heliospheric terminal shock: Magnetic field line topology and solar cycle imprint. Journal of Geophysical Research 100: doi: 10.1029/94JA02690. issn: 0148-0227.

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. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Interplanetary Physics, Heliopause and solar wind termination, Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary magnetic fields, Interplanetary Physics, Solar wind plasma
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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