On the Magnetic Correspondence between the Photosphere and the Heliosphere |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">C?E?DeforestEmail author D?M?Hassler N?A?Schwadron |
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| Institution: | (1) Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 400, Boulder, CO, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | The solar magnetic field maps every point in the corona to a corresponding place on the solar surface. Identifying the magnetic
connection map is difficult at low latitudes near the heliospheric current sheet, but remarkably simple in coronal hole interiors.
We present a simple analytic magnetic model (‘pseudocurrent extrapolation’) that reproduces the global structure of the corona,
with significant physical advantages over other nearly analytic models such as source-surface potential field extrapolation.
We use the model to demonstrate that local horizontal structure is preserved across altitude in the central portions of solar
coronal holes, up to at least 30 Rs, in agreement with observations. We argue that the preserved horizontal structure may be used to track the magnetic footpoint
associated with the location of a hypothetical spacecraft traveling through the solar corona, to relate in situ measurements of the young solar wind at ∼10–30 Rs to particular source regions at the solar surface. Further, we discuss the relationship between readily observable geometrical
distortions and physical parameters of interest such as the field-aligned current density. |
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