Time- and space-variable structures of interstellar gas passing over the heliosphere - Consequences for the interplanetary UV resonance glow

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Feb 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993a%26a...268..792f&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 268, no. 2, p. 792-804.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Heliosphere, Interplanetary Gas, Interstellar Gas, Luminescence, Ultraviolet Radiation, Lyman Alpha Radiation, Solar Wind, Spatial Distribution, Voyager Project

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There are good reasons to believe that the solar system, propagating through the ambient interstellar medium with a peculiar velocity of about 23 km/s, may be swept over by an inhomogeneous gaseous medium resulting in time-variable inflow parameters at its border. This situation is theoretically studied here for the first time in terms of the resulting time-dependent heliospheric density distributions and associated resonance glow structures. Quantitative theoretical results are presented for a large number of LISM fluctuation periods and amplitudes by which time- and space-variable LISM conditions are described. It is especially evident that fluctuation periods between 20 to 100 yrs may give noticeable imprints on the upwind/downwind glow structures. Finally we show that the effects of time-dependent LISM boundary conditions may at least be partly responsible for presently unexplained inconsistencies in synoptic interpretations of distant upwind and downwind glow data.

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