In 1961 the father-and-son team of Babcock model described the Sun's oscillatory magnetic field, with a quasi-steady periodicity of 22 years . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It covered the oscillatory exchange of energy between poloidal and toroidal solar magnetic field ingredients.
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In this bow shock, large concentrations of cometary ions ( called " pick-up ions " ) congregate and act to " load " the solar magnetic field with plasma, such that the field lines " drape " around the comet forming the ion tail.
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The " PAMELA " team has invoked this effect to explain the discrepancy between their low energy results and those obtained by " CAPRICE ", " HEAT " and " AMS-01 ", which were collected during that half of the cycle when the solar magnetic field had the opposite polarity.
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At high speeds, the plasma wind's direction will seem to come increasingly from the front of the spacecraft . Advanced sailing spacecraft might deploy field coils as " keels, " so the spacecraft could use the difference in vector between the solar magnetic field and the solar wind, much as sailing yachts do.
