Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993adspr..13..159f&link_type=abstract
Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177), vol. 13, no. 6, p. 159-171.
Physics
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Heliosphere, Interstellar Matter, Shock Discontinuity, Solar Wind Velocity, Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation, Lyman Alpha Radiation
Scientific paper
The influence of the heliospheric plasma interface on the heliospheric hydrogen densities and Lyman-alpha (LA) resonance glow intensities is discussed. It is shown that a synoptic representation of upwind LA intensities and of downwind LA intensities is only achievable if plasma interfaces with relatively small termination shock distances are favored. It is also shown that the upwind/downwind asymmetries in the pickup ion fluxes and in the anomalous cosmic ray pressures can serve as very good indicator for the location of the termination shock. It is also argued that, since the outer postshock solar wind flow has to be dynamically adapted to outside interstellar MHD conditions, the termination shock cannot be spherical but must show an egg-shaped upwind/downwind asymmetry with an inner supersonic solar which is not strictly spherically symmetric.
Fahr Hans Jörg
Osterbart Roger
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