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Prediction of the heliospheric current sheet tilt: 1992 – 1996
Author(s) -
Suess S. T.,
McComas D. J.,
Hoeksema J. T.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/93gl00078
Subject(s) - heliospheric current sheet , current sheet , ecliptic , tilt (camera) , physics , jupiter (rocket family) , current (fluid) , heliosphere , solar wind , spacecraft , solar cycle , astronomy , magnetohydrodynamics , magnetic field , geometry , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics , mathematics
Heliospheric current sheet tilt evolves systematically over the solar cycle. Here we show that this evolution is different than the sunspot cycle and that tilt for the period 1992 – 1996 can be predicted using persistence. That is, the tilt over the coming cycle will be the same as for the past cycle. The Ulysses spacecraft has passed Jupiter and is moving out of the plane of the ecliptic, so we use the prediction of the changing heliospheric current sheet tilt to predict that Ulysses will pass beyond the envelope, or maximum latitude, of the heliospheric current sheet in November 1993.