Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsh31b..03h&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SH31B-03
Physics
7845 Particle Acceleration, 7846 Plasma Energization, 7851 Shock Waves (4455)
Scientific paper
We present ion and electron data from the Voyager 2 crossing of the termination shock and the heliosheath. The plasma instrument (PLS)on Voyager 2 found the termination shock to be a very different type of shock and not an efficient accelerator of thermal plasma. The electrons downstream of the shock remain below the 10 eV threshold of the instrument. The solar wind flow energy appears to be lost during the transition. This discrepancy suggests that the energy may be transferred to interstellar pickup ions and energetic particles. We look for evidence of acceleration of the pickup ions by the termination shock and we will look at the types of waves that these pickup ions generate in both PLS and low energy charged particles (LECP) data. We hope to include/exclude pickup ions as a recipient of energy transfer during the termination shock crossing of Voyager 2 and to determine the characteristics of the termination shock.
Heredea C.
Rassoul Hamid K.
Richardson John D.
Zhang Minghui
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