The Early History of Heliospheric Science and the Spacecraft That Made It Possible
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Zank, G. P.
Sterken, V.
Giacalone, J.
Möbius, E.
von Steiger, R.
Stone, E. S.
Krimigis, S. M.
Richardson, J. D.
Linsky, J.
Izmodenov, V.
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May 25, 2022
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Springer Netherlands
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Space Science Reviews. 2022 May 25;218(4):34
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Our understanding of the interaction of the large-scale heliosphere with the local interstellar medium (LISM) has undergone a profound change since the very earliest analyses of the problem. In part, the revisions have been a consequence of ever-improving and widening observational results, especially those that identified the entrance of interstellar material and gas into the heliosphere. Accompanying these observations was the identification of the basic underlying physics of how neutral interstellar gas and interstellar charged particles of different energies, up to and including interstellar dust grains, interacted with the temporal flows and electromagnetic fields of the heliosphere. The incorporation of these various basic effects into global models of the interaction, whether focused on neutral interstellar gas and pickup ions, energetic particles such as anomalous and galactic cosmic rays, or magnetic fields and large-scale flows, has profoundly changed our view of how the heliosphere and LISM interact. This article presents a brief history of the conceptual and observation evolution of our understanding of the interaction of the heliosphere with the local interstellar medium, up until approximately 1996.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-022-00900-8
