Coronal Holes as Tracers of the Sun’s Global Magnetic Field in Cycles 21–23 of Solar Activity


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Abstract

The dependences of the number and parameters of non-polar coronal holes (CHs) on characteristics of the Sun’s global magnetic field (GMF) are investigated in cycles 21–23 of solar activity (1976–2012) based on data from the CH catalog of the Mountain Astronomical Station of the Main (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The influence of variations in the GMF structural arrangement on the CH number and parameters is considered. It is shown that the more stable and steadystate the GMF topology is in the cycle, the higher are the GMF values. The majority of CHs form over periods of stable GMF structure. With a growth in the rate of structural GMF changes, the CH number and the values of all CH parameters decrease. The correlation between the area, extension in latitude and longitude, and magnetic flux of CHs and the intensity of both the calculated coronal field and the observed large-scale photospheric magnetic field is higher in cycles with larger magnetic-field values and with a more stable GMF structure. Non-polar CHs are divided into three groups depending on the GMF value and a rate of the structural GMF rearrangement.

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I. A. Bilenko

Sternberg Astronomical Institute

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Email: bilenko@sai.msu.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119234

K. S. Tavastsherna

Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: bilenko@sai.msu.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 196140

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