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Gasdynamics of the solar wind interaction with the interstellar medium

Space Science Reviews, 1990
A survey of the present-day situation in gasdynamical models of solar wind interaction with the local interstellar medium is presented. A role of these models in interpreting a number of observed physical phenomena is investigated. Experimental data and possible observations are considered from the viewpoint of their interpretation on the basis of ...
V B Baranov
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Anisotropic fluid turbulence in the interstellar medium and solar wind

Physics of Plasmas, 2003
The interstellar medium and solar wind is permeated by a magnetic field that renders magnetohydrodynamic turbulence anisotropic. In the classic work of Iroshnikov [Astron. Zh. 40, 742 (1963)] and Kraichnan [Phys. Fluids 8, 1385 (1965)], it is assumed that the turbulence is isotropic, and an inertial range energy spectrum that scales as k−3/2 is deduced
C S nG, A Bhattacharjee, K Germaschewski   +2 more
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The interaction of the solar wind and stellar winds with the partially ionized interstellar medium

Physics of Plasmas, 2001
Plasmas in the laboratory and interstellar and interplanetary space are frequently partially ionized. Thus, the solar wind and stellar winds often interact with an interplanetary medium that is an admixture of protons, electrons, other charged ions, and neutral atoms.
G P Zank, H -R Müller, B E Wood
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Interaction Between the Solar Wind and the Interstellar Medium

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1989
The heliospheric and interstellar parameters of importance in the interaction between the solar wind and the ISM are discussed. The observationally inferred values of these parameters, including the uncertainties, are addressed, and the basic physical processes that are likely to be important in the interaction are examined theoretically. The theory is
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Anisotropic MHD Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium and Solar Wind

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2003
A theoretical model is given of anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the interstellar medium and the solar wind. The model is motivated by observations that show significant deviations from the Kolmogorov power‐law. Dimensional and heuristic arguments are given and critically assessed. On the basis of the weak turbulence approximation in which
A Bhattacharjee, C S nG
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On the motion of wind-driving stars relative to the ambient interstellar medium

Astrophysics and Space Science, 1995
It is argued that each wind-driving star is subject to the action of thrust forces appearing in relative motion of the star with respect to the ambient interstellar medium. Starting from hydrodynamic modelling of the stellar wind system in an adiabatically adapted motion relative to the local interstellar medium, the equation of star motion is derived ...
Hans J Fahr
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Unsteady processes in the solar wind interaction with the local interstellar medium

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2007
In this paper we discuss physical phenomena that could make the solar wind (SW) termination shock (TS) asymmetric enough to explain observations made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft that suggest that the TS is closer to the Sun by about 12 AU in the Voyager 2 than in the Voyager 1 direction. It is shown that the interstellar magnetic field (ISMF) itself is
N V Pogorelov, I A Kryukov, D Shaikh
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Radiowave scattering observations of turbulence in the solar wind and the interstellar medium

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2007
Turbulence in a plasma medium produces random fluctuations in the amplitude and phase of a radio wave which propagates through that medium. These amplitude and phase fluctuations can produce blurring of images, temporal and spatial fluctuations in the intensity of the received radiation, broadening of a monochromatic radio signal, and other effects ...
Steven R Spangler
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INTERACTION OF THE SOLAR WIND WITH THE LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM

25th International Cosmic Ray Conference — Volume 8, 1995
First results from a two‐dimensional (axisymmetric) time‐dependent gas dynamic model for the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium are presented. The model includes the mutual influence of the interstellar and interplanetary plasma (protons and electrons) and the neutral interstellar hydrogen atoms. Neutrals created by charge
H. L. Pauls, G. P. Zank, L. L. Williams
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Heating of the interstellar medium by the solar wind

Planetary and Space Science, 1983
The heating of inflowing interstellar gas by the solar wind is calculated. The experimental differential cross sections have been used for calculating electron-H(He) and proton-H(He) elastic scattering rate coefficients. The solar wind is assumed to be a two-component (protons and electrons), steady, spherically symmetric stream moving radially outward,
J.A. Kunc, F.M. Wu, D.L. Judge
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