Adv. Space Res., 19, (6)839-(6)842, 1997
Abstract:
Since February 1992 the Ulysses spacecraft has been in a polar orbit round
the Sun, reaching 80° heliolatitude over the south pole in September 1994
and over the north pole in July 1995. During this time solar activity has
been gradually declining towards its present minimum in mid-1996. We discuss
how the large scale configuration of the heliospheric magnetic field and its
embedded current sheet have evolved throughout this period, based upon
measurements obtained by the magnetometer experiment on Ulysses, contrasting
the snapshot of the field configuration obtained under solar minimum
conditions during the fast transit from south pole to north pole with the
results from earlier years where the slower traversal of latitude allowed
effects of the evolution of the corona with solar activity to be more apparent.
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