The Solar Wind in the Outer Heliosphere: Physical Processes in the Termination Shock and Heliosheath

The solar wind evolves as it moves outward due to interactions with both itself and with the circum-heliospheric interstellar medium. The speed is, on average, constant out to 30 AU, then starts a slow decrease due to the pickup of interstellar neutrals. These neutrals reduce the solar wind speed b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stone, E. C., Richardson, John D.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Netherlands 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49443