The Solar Wind in the Outer Heliosphere and Heliosheath

Details The Solar Wind in the Outer Heliosphere and Heliosheath The Solar Wind in the Outer Heliosphere and Heliosheath

Sep 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011ssrv..tmp..296r&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, Online First

Computer Science

Solar Wind, Termination Shock, Heliosheath, Heliopause, Pickup Ions, Interstellar Neutral Atoms, Anomalous Cosmic Rays

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The solar wind environment has a large influence on the transport of cosmic rays. This chapter discusses the observations of the solar wind plasma and magnetic field in the outer heliosphere and the heliosheath. In the supersonic solar wind, interaction regions with large magnetic fields form barriers to cosmic ray transport. This effect, the "CR-B" relationship, has been quantified and is shown to be valid everywhere inside the termination shock (TS). In the heliosheath, this relationship breaks down, perhaps because of a change in the nature of the turbulence. Turbulence is compressive in the heliosheath, whereas it was non-compressive in the solar wind. The plasma pressure in the outer heliosphere is dominated by the pickup ions which gain most of the flow energy at the TS. The heliosheath plasma and magnetic field are highly variable on scales as small as ten minutes. The plasma flow turns away from the nose roughly as predicted, but the radial speeds at Voyager 1 are much less than those at Voyager 2, which is not understood. Despite predictions to the contrary, magnetic reconnection is not an important process in the inner heliosheath with only one observed occurrence to date.

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