Parker spiral

Layer 1 — Physicsin the heliophysics subtree

Geometry of the heliospheric magnetic field carried by the radially-flowing solar wind in combination with solar rotation: in the equatorial plane the frozen-in field traces an Archimedean spiral with arm angle tan ψ = Ωr sin θ / v_sw, ≈…

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