solar sector boundary

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Term: solar sector boundary
Definition:

The boundary between large-scale unipolar magnetic regions on the Sun’s surface, as determined from inversion lines mapped using filaments and filament channels, or large-scale magnetograms. The supposed solar signature of an interplanetary sector boundary.

Created 2023.04.16
Last Modified 2023.04.16
Contributed by Ryan McGranaghan
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