Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991a%26a...241..251f&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 241, no. 1, Jan. 1991, p. 251-259.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Heliosphere, Interstellar Gas, Plasma Density, Space Plasmas, Abundance, Hydrogen, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Neutral Gases, Oxygen
Scientific paper
The distribution of O atoms in the heliosphere is calculated theoretically using an analytical model of the penetration of neutral species from the local interstellar medium (LISM) into the heliosphere as a result of the peculiar motion of the solar system. The kinetic approach developed by Ripken and Fahr (1983), Fahr and Ripken (1984), and Fahr (1986) is followed, and oxygen densities are calculated for different LISM conditions and presented graphically. Charge-exchange neutralization of O ions in the interface plasma is found to produce significant amounts of neutral O only if the LISM plasma density exceeds about 0.01/cu cm. Particular attention is then given to the implications for observations of the 130.4-nm O I glow emission, oxygen pick-up ions, and the anomalous O(+) component of cosmic rays.
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