Effects of the local interstellar medium magnetic field on the structure of the heliosphere: A laboratory simulation

Physics – Plasma Physics

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Boundary Layers, Heliosphere, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Interstellar Matter, Laboratories, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Plasma Physics, Simulation, Solar Physics, Solar Wind, Sun, Emitters, Experimentation, Mach Number, Plasma Guns, Shapes, Shock Waves, Tables (Data)

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The 'heliopause' is the hypothesized boundary separating the outflowing solar wind from the interstellar medium. The outer heliosphere itself is a problem of topical interest because several spacecraft are presently cruising towards the terminal shock of the heliosphere. While there have been theoretical and computer simulation studies of this boundary, there has so far been no laboratory simulation. We have now performed such a simulation, and the results are presented here. The results indicate the possible existence of such a boundary as being highly axiasymmetrical in the case of the low Alfvenic Mach number of the local interstellar medium.

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