Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsh34a..01l&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SH34A-01
Physics
2114 Energetic Particles (7514), 2124 Heliopause And Solar Wind Termination, 2139 Interplanetary Shocks, 2149 Mhd Waves And Turbulence (2752, 6050, 7836)
Scientific paper
This Parker Lecture is a personal guided tour through the heliosphere featuring hydromagnetic waves, shocks, and energetic particle populations, their observed behavior from the Sun to the solar wind termination shock, and the theoretical concepts that have been developed to describe them. As a first-year graduate student, I first met Gene Parker in January 1967 when he was my instructor in Electrodynamics at the University of Chicago. His contributions to our understanding of heliospheric waves, shocks, and energetic particles over the last 50 years have molded our view of these diverse but connected heliospheric phenomena. I shall mention those contributions that have been particularly influential in my own work. The tour will include, for example, stops at Earth's bow shock, the shocks bounding corotating interaction regions in the solar wind, the solar wind termination shock, the space environment around comets, the mass and momentum loading of the solar wind through its interaction with the interstellar gas, the theory of diffusive shock acceleration, and the process of stochastic acceleration. The lecture will end with a list of outstanding puzzles concerning energetic particle transport and shock structure for which we seek solutions as we complete Voyagers' exploration of the outer heliosphere and start to explore the inner neighborhood of the Sun.
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