From the Outer Heliosphere to the Local Bubble: Comparisons of New Observations with Theory

Book Overview

Knowledge about the outer heliosphere and the interstellar medium, which were long treated as two separate fields, has improved dramatically over the past 25 years as a consequence of recent developments: The discovery of interstellar pickup ions and neutral helium inside the heliosphere, the determination of the interstellar hydrogen distribution in the heliosphere obtained using backscattered solar Lyman-alpha radiation, the prediction and subsequent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489994580
• ISBN13: 9781489994585
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"