Determine the impact of the magnetic-field amplitude discrepancy

Determine whether the discrepancy between the magnetic-field amplitude curves calculated with the SOLAR-PROP 2.0 implementation of the Jokipii–Kóta modification and the curves shown in the reference publication affects only the visualization of the magnetic-field amplitude or also the calculated solar-modulation results.

Background

The paper implements two solar-modulation models based on the modified heliospheric magnetic field proposed by Jokipii and Kóta. When comparing the calculated field amplitude with the corresponding figure in the reference publication, the author finds discrepancies for radial distances of 5 AU and 10 AU. The unresolved issue is whether the disagreement is merely graphical or indicates a deeper inconsistency affecting the published physical calculations.

References

To my understanding, the curves presented here are correct. It is unclear if this discrepancy affects only the visualization of the magnetic field amplitude or also the results of the calculations given in Ref..

— Solarprop 2.0: Modern charge-sign dependent solar modulation for everyone  (2610.01360 - Gast, 1 Oct 2026) in Section 5, Model with modified magnetic field