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The Stationary Electric Field in the Heliosphere and Its Possible Relation to Current Sheets

Kislov, Roman A.

The nature of the large-scale electric field in the heliosphere is discussed in this paper. The electric potential along each line of the magnetic field should be constant in the ideally conductive solar wind. A high electric potential is supposed to be maintained by the rapidly flowing solar wind far from the Sun and, near the Sun, by the unipola…

Ulysses Flyby in the Heliosphere: Comparison of the Solar Wind Model with Observational Data

Malova, Helmi V.; Popov, Victor Yu.; Zelenyi, Lev M. +1 more

A model capable of reproducing a set of solar wind parameters along the virtual spacecraft orbit out of an ecliptic plane has been developed. In the framework of a quasi-stationary axisymmetric self-consistent MHD model the spatial distributions of magnetic field and plasma characteristics at distances from 20 to 1200 Solar radii at almost all sol…