Plasma velocities in the Heliosheath and the influence of the interstellar wind

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Chronopoulos, Chris
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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John W. Belcher.
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Abstract
A new coordinate system (Interstellar Heliospheric Coordinates, or IHC) is introduced to enable the detailed study of the influence of the interstellar wind on the heliosheath. Recent, in situ measurements of plasma velocities in the heliosheath by Voyager 2 are projected into the IHC system and analyzed. We consider steady state flows as well as time dependent phenomena, and we show that a transient event with no obvious cause or direction takes a particularly simple form in IHC.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2009.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 35).
 
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2009
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51604
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.
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