Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996ssrv...78..335g&link_type=abstract
Space Science Reviews, Volume 78, Issue 1-2, pp. 335-346
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Pickup ions measured deep inside the heliosphere open a new way to determine the absolute atomic density of a number of elements and isotopes in the local interstellar cloud (LIC). We derive the atomic abundance of hydrogen and the two isotopes of helium from the velocity and spatial distributions of interstellar pickup protons and ionized helium measured with the Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) on the Ulysses spacecraft between ˜2 and ˜5 AU. The atomic hydrogen density near the termination shock derived from interstellar pickup ion measurements is 0.115±0.025 cm-3 and the atomic H/He ratio from these observations is found to be 7.7 ± 1.3 in the outer heliosphere. Comparing this value with the standard universal H/He ratio of ˜10 we conclude that filtration of hydrogen is small and that the ionization fraction of hydrogen in the LIC is low.
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