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Take for example, the heliospheric current sheet,(ref) the largest coherence structure in the solar system, that carries about 3 billion amps (ref).

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Take for example, the heliospheric current sheet,(ref) the largest coherence structure in the solar system, that carries about 3 billion amps (ref).

World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010

The interplanetary medium is a near 100% plasma.(ref) It carries both magnetic fields and electric currents (cf the heliospheric current sheet)

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The underlying magnetic field is called the interplanetary magnetic field, and the resulting electric current forms part of the heliospheric current circuit.

Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009

The heliospheric current sheet results in higher order multipole components so that the actual magnetic field at the Earth due to the Sun is 100 times greater.

Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009

The figure illustrates a newly recognized phenomenon in the ACE SWEPAM suprathermal electron data – depletions of halo electrons centered on and roughly symmetric about 90° pitch angle PA relative to the heliospheric magnetic field.

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'The heliospheric current sheet is a ripple in the heliosphere created by the Sun's rotating magnetic field.

Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009

That is the "heliospheric current sheet," a vast transition zone where the polarity of the sun's magnetic field changes from plus (north) to minus (south).

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[7] We use here recent reconstructions of two solar-heliospheric indices, the sunspot number and the cosmic ray flux, and six different series of terrestrial surface temperatures.

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[7] We use here recent reconstructions of two solar-heliospheric indices, the sunspot number and the cosmic ray flux, and six different series of terrestrial surface temperatures.

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