Filtration of interstellar hydrogen in the two-shock heliospheric interface: Inferences on the local interstellar electron density

Details Filtration of interstellar hydrogen in the two-shock heliospheric interface: Inferences on the local interstellar electron density Filtration of interstellar hydrogen in the two-shock heliospheric interface: Inferences on the local interstellar electron density

1998-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9812373v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 5 figures, JGR-Space Physics, accepted, AGU preprint style

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The solar system is moving through the partially ionized local interstellar cloud (LIC). The ionized matter of the LIC interacts with the expanding solar wind forming the heliospheric interface. The neutral component (interstellar atoms) penetrates through the heliospheric interface into the heliosphere, where it is measured directly "in situ" as pick-up ions and neutral atoms (and as anomalous cosmic rays) or indirectly through resonant scattering of solar Ly-alpha. When crossing the heliospheric interface, interstellar atoms interact with the plasma component through charge exchange. This interaction leads to changes of both neutral gas and plasma properties. The heliospheric interface is also the source of radio emissions which have been detected by the Voyager since 1983. In this paper, we have used a kinetic model of the flow of the interstellar atoms with updated values of velocity, temperature, and density of the circumsolar interstellar hydrogen and calculated how all quantities which are directly associated to the observations vary as a function of the interstellar proton number density. These quantities are the degree of filtration, the temperature and the velocity of the interstellar H atoms in the inner heliosphere, the distances to the bow shock (BS), heliopause, and termination shock, and the plasma frequencies in the LIC, at the BS and in the maximum compression region around the heliosphere which constitutes the "barrier" for radio waves formed in the interstellar medium. Comparing the model results with recent pickup ion data, Ly- alpha measurements, and low-frequencies radio emissions, we have searched for a number density of protons in the local interstellar cloud compatible with all observations.

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