Observation of the interstellar helium cone by the NOZOMI spacecraft

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May 2001

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Space Science Reviews, v. 97, Issue 1/4, p. 423-426 (2001).

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‘The Japanese Mars probe, NOZOMI, is staying in the interplanetary space (1 1.5 AU) until its Mars’ orbit insertion scheduled in early 2004. Every 16 months on this interplanetary orbit the spacecraft crosses around 1 AU the ‘gravitational focusing cone’ of the interstellar helium, which are penetrating into the inner heliosphere under the solar gravity. During the first crossing of the cone in the season of March May 2000, we observed these helium particles after the solar wind pickup process with an E/q type ion detector aboard NOZOMI. We have estimated the original temperature of the interstellar helium as 11 000 K.

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