Voyager 2 Observations of Plasma and Pressure Pulses
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Cummings, Alan C.; Decker, Robert; Stone, Edward C.; Belcher, John Winston; Richardson, John D.
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This paper provides the latest data from Voyager 2 on plasma characteristics in the heliosheath including the observations of pressure waves in the plasma and particle data. Models and observations show that solar transients drive pressure waves through the heliosphere. Pressure pulses that could drive heliosheath waves are observed near the previous solar maximum upstream of the termination shock. We show that the most recent data is consistent with the presence of pressure waves and compare the heliosheath waves with the pressure increases in the heliosheath. The magnetic field is better correlated with density and galactic cosmic ray intensities in the supersonic solar wind than in the heliosheath. The galactic cosmic rays are correlated with the plasma and particles with a ∼30-day lag in both the supersonic wind and heliosheath.
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2018-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchJournal
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
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IOP Publishing
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Richardson, John D., John W. Belcher, Alan C. Cummings, Robert Decker, and Edward C. Stone. “Voyager 2 Observations of Plasma and Pressure Pulses.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1100 (October 2018): 012019. © 2018 Web Portal IOP
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1742-6588
1742-6596