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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Springer Netherlands
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49443 |