Towards Calibration of the Mean Magnetic Field of the sun |
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| Authors: | VA Kotov SV Kotov VV Setyaev |
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| Institution: | (1) Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchny, Crimea, 98409, Russia;(2) Joint Institute of High Temperatures, Moscow, 127412, Russia;(3) Geographical Department, Moscow State University, Moscow, 117234, Russia |
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| Abstract: | The 1968–2000 data on the mean magnetic field (MMF, longitudinal component) of the Sun are analysed to study long-time trends of the Sun's magnetic field and to check MMF calibration. It is found that, within the error limits, the mean intensity of photospheric magnetic field (the MMF strength, |H|), did not change over the last 33 years. It clearly shows, however, the presence of an 11-year periodicity caused by the solar activity cycle. Time variations of |H| correlate well with those of the radial component, |B
r|, of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). This correlation (r=0.69) appears to be significantly higher than that between |B
r| and the results of a potential source-surface extrapolation, to the Earth's orbit, of synoptic magnetic charts of the photosphere (using the so-called `saturation' factor  –1 for magnetograph measurements performed in the line Fe i  525.0 nm; Wang and Sheeley, 1995). It seems therefore that the true source surface of IMF is the `quiet' photosphere – background fields and coronal holes, like those for MMF. The average `effective' magnetic strength of the photospheric field is determined to be about 1.9 G. It is also shown that there is an approximate linear relation between |B
r| and MMF intensity |H| (in gauss)|B
r|  (H
0)min×(1+C|H|)where =1.5×10–5 normalizes the photospheric field strength to 1 AU distance from the Sun, (H
0)min=1.2 G is some minimal `effective' intensity of photospheric background fields and C=1.3 G–1 an empirical constant. It is noted that good correlation between time variations of |H| and |B
r| makes suspicious a correction of the photospheric magnetic fields with the use of saturation factor –1. |
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