Solar wind and pick-up ion energy spectra measured with New Horizons/SWAP between 11 and 12 AU

Details Solar wind and pick-up ion energy spectra measured with New Horizons/SWAP between 11 and 12 AU Solar wind and pick-up ion energy spectra measured with New Horizons/SWAP between 11 and 12 AU

Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsh34a..07r&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SH34A-07

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Plasma Physics

[2126] Interplanetary Physics / Heliosphere/Interstellar Medium Interactions, [2152] Interplanetary Physics / Pickup Ions, [2164] Interplanetary Physics / Solar Wind Plasma, [7823] Space Plasma Physics / Ionization Processes

Scientific paper

The Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard the New Horizons spacecraft measured energy spectra of solar wind and interstellar pick-up ions between 11 and 12 AU in late 2008. We report on detailed fitting of these spectra with an empirical model for each of the solar wind species and the pick-up ions. From the fits, we derive densities, bulk speeds, and temperatures for the solar wind and pick-up ions. We find a correlation between the densities of solar wind protons and interstellar pick-up ions, a result that could have implications for transport of pick-up ions through the heliosphere.

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