{"title":"Active longitudes and the structure of the large-scale magnetic field at solar minimum","authors":"Victor Grigoryev, Lyudmila Ermakova","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202303","url":null,"abstract":"We have studied deep minima of 11-year solar activity cycles 13–14, 14–15, 22–23, 23–24, 24–25, using the RGO and USAF/NOAA sunspot group catalogs. All of them have a large number of spotless days. Nonetheless, active longitudes as preferred zones, where sunspots occur, appear at this solar cycle phase. Analysis of synoptic maps and WSO daily magnetograms reflecting the structure of a weak large-scale field shows a non-axisymmetric component of the solar magnetic field. At solar minimum in the structure of the large-scale magnetic field, there are regions of the magnetic field of positive and negative polarity elongated along the meridian and crossing the equator. The most pronounced of them are located in the zone of active longitudes and are often connected with the polar magnetic fields. We discuss the possible nature of the meridional structures of the large-scale field during solar minimum. This might be due to giant convection cells with a banana cell structure.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"8 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139169635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marina Chernigovskaya, A. Yasyukevich, D. Khabituev
{"title":"Ionospheric longitudinal variability in the Northern Hemisphere during magnetic storms in March 2012 from ionosonde and GPS/GLONASS data","authors":"Marina Chernigovskaya, A. Yasyukevich, D. Khabituev","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202313","url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive study of spatio-temporal variations of geomagnetic, ionospheric, and atmospheric parameters in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere during a series of magnetic storms in March 2012 has been expanded by including vertical total electronic content (TEC) data from measurements at the chains of dual-frequency phase receivers GPS/GLONASS in the analysis. The features of longitudinal variations in ionosphere ionization over mid-latitude Eurasia, found earlier from vertical sounding data, are confirmed by vertical TEC data. We emphasize the complex physics of the long magnetically disturbed period in March 2012 with switching between positive and negative effects of an ionospheric storm during the same magnetic storm phases for spaced mid-latitude regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. Such changes in the ionospheric storm effects might have been caused by the superposition of competing processes in the mid-latitude region of the Eastern Hemisphere due to variations in the thermospheric composition, thermospheric winds, and large-scale electric fields affecting ionospheric ionization. We have observed significant differences in the nature of the ionospheric ionization reaction between the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the prolonged geomagnetic disturbance in March 2012. According to TEC data, there was an effect of reduced ionization of the ionosphere at longitudes of the Western Hemisphere, unlike the Eastern one. The effect of a negative ionospheric storm was caused by the formation of vast areas of atmospheric gas with a reduced density ratio [O]/[N2] over the mid-latitude region of the Western Hemisphere in the zone of maximum penetration of geomagnetic disturbances from high latitudes to middle latitudes. According to the INTERMAGNET magnetometer chain data for the analyzed period of magnetic storms on March 7–20, 2012, at midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere the maximum geomagnetic field variations were observed in the Western Hemisphere.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"130 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vladimir Mordvinov, Elena Devyatova, Vladimir Tomozov
{"title":"Influence of the magnetic field and the mean flow configuration on spatial structure and growth rate of normal modes","authors":"Vladimir Mordvinov, Elena Devyatova, Vladimir Tomozov","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202315","url":null,"abstract":"The first part of the work presents the results of numerical experiments with the magnetohydrodynamic model of “shallow water” to assess the degree of influence of the magnetic field on the development of instabilities conditioned by a combination of inhomogeneities in the mean flow and the mean magnetic field. Numerical simulation of normal modes has confirmed the earlier obtained result on the different influence of weak and strong magnetic fields on the instability of differential rotation. Calculations have shown that a weak magnetic field stabilizes the development of instabilities, whereas a strong magnetic field, on the contrary, enhances the instability. Azimuthal inhomogeneities of differential rotation in all cases contribute to the development of instabilities. In the second part of the work, we examine the spatial structure of normal modes and make an attempt to interpret the torsional oscillations observed in the atmospheres of Earth and the Sun. Calculations have shown that regular axisymmetric disturbances (torsional oscillations) can be caused by the formation of a cyclonic vortex above the pole, which is characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere and, possibly, of the Sun’s atmosphere. The least damped normal mode of a stable polar cyclone has a structure of torsional oscillations. Flow anomalies and the development of an anticyclonic eddy in winter at midlatitudes destroy torsional oscillations and lead to a rapid amplification of normal modes, which are more complex in structure.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"97 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138954109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photodetachment rates for O⁻ and O₂⁻ in the D layer of the ionosphere as function of solar zenith angle and solar activity","authors":"Stanislav Kozlov, Andrey Lyakhov","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202312","url":null,"abstract":"We present the results of calculation of photodetachment rates for negative ions in the D layer of the ionosphere, using recent photodetachment cross-section measurements. The calculations have been made for the standard atmosphere by means of the TUV (Terrestrial UltraViolet) code. We have obtained dependences of the photodetachment rates on altitude and solar zenith angle. The nonlinear nature of these dependences causes similar variations in the role of the photodetachement processes with altitude and solar zenith angle as compared to other processes in the middle atmosphere and the lower ionosphere, especially under terminator conditions. Calculations with solar spectrum for 2011–2020 for the summer/winter solstice and the spring/autumn equinox have shown no quantitative difference between the photodetachement rates for ions in the D layer of the ionosphere.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"19 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138956133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Dorofeev, Aleksandr Chernyshov, D. Chugunin, Michael Mogilevsky
{"title":"Main statistical properties of hectometric continuum radiation in near-Earth space","authors":"D. Dorofeev, Aleksandr Chernyshov, D. Chugunin, Michael Mogilevsky","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202308","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we have studied the recently discovered hectometric continuum radiation in near-Earth plasma. We have carried out a detailed statistical analysis of the occurrence of a hectometric continuum near Earth at distances 1.1–2 Re, where Re is the Earth radius, for a two-year period, using data from the ERG (Arase) satellite. We have established that the generation of the hectometric radiation depends on the local magnetic time. The continuum radiation of this type is shown to occur mainly at night and in the morning. We have also studied the dependence of the occurrence of hectometric radiation on geomagnetic activity and have demonstrated that there is no direct dependence of the occurrence of hectometric radiation on geomagnetic disturbances. Moreover, the statistical analysis made it possible to localize sources of radio emission of this type in near-Earth space and to show that the source(s) of generation of the hectometric continuum radiation is located at low latitudes.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"51 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138955446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solar flares with sustained gamma-ray emission and some characteristics of high-energy proton fluxes","authors":"Vladimir Tomozov, G. Minasyants, T. Minasyants","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202304","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the characteristics of long-term gamma fluxes with quantum energies >100 MeV, obtained from Fermi/LAT data during the impulsive phase of the most energetic flare phenomena. We compare GOES data on proton fluxes with energies >500 MeV with Fermi/LAT data on gamma fluxes for the period 2010–2018. The results of the analysis of all data obtained on 32 gamma-ray flares from the Fermi/LAT catalog show that the flare phenomena can be classified into three different types: type 1 — gamma fluxes accompanied by energetic proton fluxes; type 2 — gamma rays recorded in the absence of increases in proton fluxes; type 3 — gamma fluxes not recorded during observed increases in energetic proton fluxes. The burst character of energy release in the hard X-ray range was noted in some flares.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"128 49","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mikhail Krainev, Galina Bazilevskaya, Mikhail Kalinin, Vladimir Mihaylov, A. Svirzhevskaya, Nikolay Svirzhevsky
{"title":"Fifty years of studying the GCR intensity during inversion of heliospheric magnetic fields I. Observations","authors":"Mikhail Krainev, Galina Bazilevskaya, Mikhail Kalinin, Vladimir Mihaylov, A. Svirzhevskaya, Nikolay Svirzhevsky","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202301","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of the 22-year variation of solar magnetic fields in the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity were first observed and interpreted as manifestations of inversion of the high-latitude solar magnetic field in properties of heliospheric magnetic fields by the Lebedev Physical Institute team in 1973. Since then, these effects have been studied already for 50 years. \u0000The situation with the heliospheric magnetic field is clear for periods of medium and low sunspot activity — the heliosphere consists of two unipolar “hemispheres” separated by a wavy global heliospheric current sheet and characterized by a general polarity A (unit quantity with the sign of the radial component of the heliospheric magnetic field in the northern hemisphere). Yet there is no consensus on what the inversion of the heliospheric magnetic field is and which effects in the GCR intensity are connected with this phenomenon. \u0000In this article, we briefly formulate general concepts of the 22-year variation in characteristics of the Sun, heliosphere, and GCR intensity and discuss the observed effects in the GCR intensity, which we attribute to the heliospheric magnetic field reversal. Models for this phenomenon and the results of GCR intensity calculations with these models will be discussed in the next article.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"113 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138953903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of small-scale magnetic fields before small and large solar flares","authors":"A. Borovik, A. Zhdanov","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202305","url":null,"abstract":"We have examined the dynamics of the longitudinal magnetic field of active region NOAA 12673, using data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). During the passage of the active region (AR) across the solar disk, its spots and background fields showed complex motion trajectories, and numerous small-scale short-lived local polarity inversion lines (LPILs) were formed when new magnetic fluxes appeared in the AR and came closer to fields of opposite polarity. The length of LPILs was less than 15.000 km (~20 arcsec); their lifetime was several hours. Study of the flare activity of NOAA 12673 has shown that low-power flares (optical class S, area ˂2 sq. degrees) generally occur near LPILs. Before small flares and the September 06, 2017 large flare (optical importance 3B, X-ray class X9.3), in limited sites of local and main polarity inversion lines there were shear stresses and an increase in the magnetic field gradient: in the region of low-power flares, to 1.3–1.5 G/km; in the region of the large flare, 3–3.5 G/km. The results obtained suggest that the longitudinal magnetic field behaves similarly before both small and large flares.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"16 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138955270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Artur Yakimchuk, Aleksander V. Rubtsov, D. Klimushkin
{"title":"Polarization distribution of transverse ULF waves according to Van Allen Probe A data: whether toroidal and poloidal waves exist separately in the magnetosphere?","authors":"Artur Yakimchuk, Aleksander V. Rubtsov, D. Klimushkin","doi":"10.12737/szf-94202309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-94202309","url":null,"abstract":"Ultralow-frequency (ULF) waves play an important role in energy transfer within Earth's magnetosphere due to intensive interaction with the surrounding plasma. Previous works have assumed that these waves are strictly divided by polarization into toroidal, when the magnetic field oscillates in the azimuthal direction, and poloidal, when it oscillates in the radial direction. The former are azimuthally large-scale and are excited by external sources, whereas the latter are small-scale and are generated by internal plasma instabilities. Observations show, however, that waves of mixed polarization often occur, and the nature of this mixing has not been explained. In this paper, we carry out a statistical study and show that the polarization of transverse waves has a normal distribution, and the maximum corresponds to oscillations of the toroidal and poloidal components with the same amplitude. At the same time, the spatial distributions of toroidal and poloidal waves are clearly different, but only lead to a small shift in the position of the distribution maximum. This result suggests that in order to compare the theory with ULF wave observations it is necessary to take into account the processes of polarization change, which can affect wave-particle interactions in the magnetosphere.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"14 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139168472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Petukhova, Ivan Petuhov, S. Petukhov, Ilya Gotovtsev
{"title":"Peculiarities of medium parameter dynamics and cosmic ray density in strong Forbush decreases associated with magnetic clouds","authors":"A. Petukhova, Ivan Petuhov, S. Petukhov, Ilya Gotovtsev","doi":"10.12737/szf-92202311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12737/szf-92202311","url":null,"abstract":"Diffusion and electromagnetic mechanisms determine the formation of sporadic Forbush decreases. The diffusion mechanism affects the Forbush decrease amplitude in the turbulent layer, and the part of the coronal mass ejection preceding the magnetic cloud, and its efficiency depends on the level of magnetic field turbulence. The electromagnetic mechanism works in a magnetic cloud, and its efficiency depends on the intensity of regular magnetic and electric fields. We analyze solar wind parameters and cosmic ray density, using the superposed epoch analysis. In 1996–2006, 23 strong Forbush decreases (amplitude >5 %) were detected. The average amplitude of 7 % is equally formed by both mechanisms. The events can be divided into 2 groups depending on the contribution of the mechanisms to Forbush decrease amplitude. Group 1 includes the strongest Forbush decreases (amplitude=8.5 %), formed by both diffusion and electromagnetic mechanisms. The diffusion mechanism forms 0.26 amplitude, and the electromagnetic mechanism is responsible for 0.74 one. In group 2, the averege amplitude Forbush decrease =5.7 %, the diffusion mechanism forms 0.79 of amplitude; and the electromagnetic one, 0.21. The spatial distributions of the mean values of the medium parameters in the region of disturbances in the groups differ. This difference can be explained by the fact that Forbush decrease amplitude in groups 1 and 2 are formed in the central and peripheral parts of coronal mass ejection respectively.","PeriodicalId":351867,"journal":{"name":"Solnechno-Zemnaya Fizika","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115280171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}