Higher Order Statistical Multifractality Spectrum of the Solar Wind Velocity and Interplanetary Magnetic Field

This study deals with the multifractality scaling of Solar Wind velocity and Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) from January 1996 to December 2006 which is nearly the time span of Solar Cycle 23. The datasets of these parameters have been taken from OMNI Web server and the level of multifractality is analyzed for solar wind plasma parameters. Our results show the inhomogeneous rate of the transfer of the energy flux indicating multifractal behavior of solar wind plasma parameter turbulence in the inner heliosphere. This shows that the degree of asymmetry for the plasma parameters has much better agreement with the real data for solar cycle 23 and data sampling shows weakly correlation with the phase of the solar activity. This describes the energy transfer is responsible for turbulence in various environments and their features having similar behavior like nonlinear multifractal systems.