NDLI: The heliospheric plasma tail under the influence of charge exchange processes with interstellar H atoms

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Author	Jäger, Stefan Fahr, Hans J.
Copyright Year	1998
Abstract	The relative motion of the solar system with respect to the ambient interstellar medium is known to form a plasma interface region where the subsonic interstellar and solar wind plasma flows adapt to a pressure equilibrium surface, called the heliopause. Inside this discontinuity surface the solar plasma is deflected from the upwind to the downwind side, finally escaping from the solar system along a heliospheric tail. Due to continuous charge exchange interactions with interstellar H atoms entering from the tailward flanks of the heliopause tail plasma, originating from shocked solar wind, changes its thermodynamic character by cooling and deceleration while passing along the tail to larger downstream distances. Here we describe this charge-exchange-induced modification of the tail plasma up to a final assimilation into the interstellar plasma. On the other hand neutral H atoms are produced by means of charge exchange interactions in the heliotail with velocities by which these atoms are shot back into the inner heliosphere. We calculate the velocity distribution of such H atoms entering the inner heliosphere from the downwind direction and study their contribution to the H-pick-up ion production in the downwind region. As we show in this paper, total H-pick-up ion production rates in the downwind region are dominated by ionization of such anti-tailward H atoms within the orbit of the earth. They also dominate the pick-up ion energy spectrum beyond 4keV at distances between 1 and 10AU.
Starting Page	193
Ending Page	219
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00380938
Journal	Solar Physics
Volume Number	178
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1573093X
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	1998-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Astrophysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science

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