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Time-dependent MHD modeling of the global solar corona for year 2007: Driven by daily-updated magnetic field synoptic data
Liu, Yang; Wu, S. T.; Feng, X. S. +3 more
In this paper, we develop a time-dependent MHD model driven by the daily-updated synoptic magnetograms (MHD-DUSM) to study the dynamic evolution of the global corona with the help of the 3D Solar-Interplanetary (SIP) adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) space-time conservation element and solution element (CESE) MHD model (SIP-AMR-CESE MHD Model). To ac…
An MHD simulation model of time-dependent co-rotating solar wind
Hayashi, K.
We present a treatment of observation-based time-dependent boundary conditions for the inner boundary sphere in the time-dependent three-dimensional MHD simulations of the global solar wind. With this boundary treatment, we obtain super-Alfvenic MHD solutions of time-dependent co-rotating solar wind structures. The boundary variables on the inner …
Inflow direction of interstellar neutrals deduced from pickup ion measurements at 1 AU
Galvin, Antoinette B.; Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F.; Bochsler, Peter +4 more
Observations of interstellar pickup ions inside the heliosphere provide an indirect method to access information on the surrounding interstellar medium. The so-called pickup ion focusing cone and pickup ion crescent, which show an imprint of the related longitudinal distribution of interstellar neutrals in form of two overabundances on the down- a…
Pickup protons: Comparisons using the three-dimensional MHD HHMS-PI model and Ulysses SWICS measurements
Sun, Wei; Intriligator, Devrie S.; Detman, Thomas +5 more
We report the first comparisons of pickup proton simulation results with in situ measurements of pickup protons obtained by the SWICS instrument on Ulysses. Simulations were run using the three dimensional (3D) time-dependent Hybrid Heliospheric Modeling System with Pickup Protons (HHMS-PI). HHMS-PI is an MHD solar wind model, expanded to include …
The wide skirt of the bashful ballerina: Hemispheric asymmetry of the heliospheric magnetic field in the inner and outer heliosphere
Mursula, K.; Virtanen, I. I.
We reanalyze the observations of the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) made by the Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 heliospheric probes since 1972, and calculate the HMF sector occurrence ratios and tangential component strengths in the different regions of the heliosphere. Observations at the distant probes and at 1 AU show a very consistent…