The Solar Wind in the Outer Heliosphere and Heliosheath

The solar wind environment has a large influence on the transport of cosmic rays. This chapter discusses the observations of the solar wind plasma and magnetic field in the outer heliosphere and the heliosheath. In the supersonic solar wind, interaction regions with large magnetic fields form bar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richardson, John D., Burlaga, L. F.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66575