Coronal magnetic structure at a solar sector boundary

Abstract

A persistent large-scale coronal magnetic structure associated with a sector boundary is shown to consist probably of a magnetic arcade loop structure extending from one solar polar region to the other in approximately the north-south direction. This structure was inferred from computed coronal magnetic field maps for days on which a stable magnetic sector boundary was near the central meridian, based on an interplanetary sector boundary observed to recur during much of 1968 and 1969.