Gold, T., Magnetic Storms, Space Sci. Rev., 1, 100-114 (1962) (ADS)
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A second T. Gold cartoon
from the same 1962 paper.
Here he pointed out the contradiction between the
repeated occurrence of what we now call CMEs, and the then-known
rough invariability of the interplanetary magnetic field.
Why would it not intensify continually as more and more CMEs happened?
This would have to be the result of some process between the corona and
the solar wind, essentially, and we now discuss this as a form of
magnetic reconnection ("interchange reconnection"); see the
Crooker cartoon for this possibly
unnecessary neologism.
A second T. Gold cartoon from the same 1962 paper. Here he pointed out the contradiction between the repeated occurrence of what we now call CMEs, and the then-known rough invariability of the interplanetary magnetic field. Why would it not intensify continually as more and more CMEs happened? This would have to be the result of some process between the corona and the solar wind, essentially, and we now discuss this as a form of magnetic reconnection ("interchange reconnection"); see the Crooker cartoon for this possibly unnecessary neologism.