Parker Solar Probe Enters the Magnetically Dominated Solar Corona
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Key Points Large dB / dt “spikes” in ground magnetometer data occur in three local time hotspots in the pre‐midnight, dawn, and pre‐noon sectors These are consistent with spikes produced by substorm onsets, omega bands, and the Kelvin‐Helmholtz instability, respectively Spike occurrence is controlled by solar activity, maximizing in the declining phase of the solar cycle, esp. solar cycle 23more » « less