NASA NTRS · 19910063738
The structure of helical interplanetary magnetic fields
Abstract
The interplanetary magnetic field is known to be highly helical. Although the detailed spatial structure of the fields has yet to be elucidated, the helicity spectrum has been conjectured to result from a random walk in the direction of a constant magnitude magnetic field vector. A model using three-dimensional fluctuations with variations in B is demonstrated giving a good fit to the helicity spectrum as well as to other properties of the interplanetary magnetic field.
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Goldstein, M. L., Roberts, D. A., Fitch, C. A.. 1991-08-01. The structure of helical interplanetary magnetic fields. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910063738
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