TY - JOUR

T1 - Long-term North–South Asymmetry of the Heliospheric Current Sheet

AU - Вохмянин, Михаил Владимирович

AU - Золотова, Надежда Валерьевна

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

PY - 2022/3/1

Y1 - 2022/3/1

N2 - In this paper, we evaluate the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) north-south asymmetry using the ecliptical sector structure of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) reconstructed since the second half of the 19th century. During the last five solar cycles, the inferred IMF polarities fairly reproduce the observed dominance of the sectors with the polarity of the northern solar hemisphere, i.e., the prolonged southward shift of the HCS. For the presatellite era, we found that the northward shift of the HCS was more common in cycles 10, 15, and 17-19, and the southward HCS shift was more common in cycles 9, 11-14, and 16. We also analyzed the north-south asymmetry in sunspot group numbers since 1749 and found that the northern hemisphere dominated in cycles 2-3, 7-9, and 15-20, and the southern hemisphere activity was stronger in cycles 4, 9-14, and 21-24. Moreover, other solar phenomena bear similar long-term asymmetry variations. The regularity of these variations is not clear. According to the available proxies of the solar data, the dominance of the northern hemisphere is found in the ascending phase of the secular solar cycle, and the dominance of the southern hemisphere coincides with the descending phase.

AB - In this paper, we evaluate the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) north-south asymmetry using the ecliptical sector structure of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) reconstructed since the second half of the 19th century. During the last five solar cycles, the inferred IMF polarities fairly reproduce the observed dominance of the sectors with the polarity of the northern solar hemisphere, i.e., the prolonged southward shift of the HCS. For the presatellite era, we found that the northward shift of the HCS was more common in cycles 10, 15, and 17-19, and the southward HCS shift was more common in cycles 9, 11-14, and 16. We also analyzed the north-south asymmetry in sunspot group numbers since 1749 and found that the northern hemisphere dominated in cycles 2-3, 7-9, and 15-20, and the southern hemisphere activity was stronger in cycles 4, 9-14, and 21-24. Moreover, other solar phenomena bear similar long-term asymmetry variations. The regularity of these variations is not clear. According to the available proxies of the solar data, the dominance of the northern hemisphere is found in the ascending phase of the secular solar cycle, and the dominance of the southern hemisphere coincides with the descending phase.

KW - EVENTS

KW - GNEVYSHEV-OHL RULE

KW - MAGNETIC-FIELD

KW - ROTATION

KW - SECTOR STRUCTURE

KW - SOLAR-ACTIVITY

KW - SUN

KW - SUNSPOT

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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5630

DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5630

M3 - Article

VL - 928

JO - Astrophysical Journal

JF - Astrophysical Journal

SN - 0004-637X

IS - 1

M1 - 56

ER -