Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 2002
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American Physical Society, 44th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma , abstract #LM1.001
Physics
Scientific paper
The interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium (LISM) creates the heliosphere. This interaction is enriched and modified in important ways by the neutral component of the LISM. The major features of the interaction of the neutral component with the solar wind will be reviewed: the formation of the "hydrogen wall" beyond the heliopause, the passage of the neutral gas into the inner heliosphere within 0.5 AU of the Sun, the production and transport of the interstellar pickup ions, the momentum loading of the solar wind, and the acceleration of the pickup ions at the solar wind termination shock to form the anomalous cosmic ray component. Emphasis will be placed on plasma phenomena which are not entirely understood: e.g., the excitation of hydromagnetic waves by the relaxation of the initial pickup ion distribution function, pickup ion transport which must account for the large observed spatial variations in the pickup ion intensity, the injection mechanism of the pickup ions into the process of diffusive shock acceleration at the termination shock. Connections will also be made briefly to similar phenomena at comets and the dust in the inner heliosphere.
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