| dc.contributor.author | Richardson, John D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stone, E. C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kasper, J. C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Belcher, John Winston | |
| dc.contributor.author | Decker, R. B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-17T17:55:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-03-17T17:55:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-05 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2009-03 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0094-8276 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52676 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Voyager 2 is making the first plasma measurements in the heliosheath. The radial flow speeds in the heliosheath vary between 80 and 200 km/s with an average speed of 138 km/s. The flow in the T (azimuthal) direction is fairly constant and averages about 48 km/s; the flow direction is consistent with flow away from the heliospheric nose. Flow in the N (meridional) direction is also away from the nose and averages −14 km/s. These flows suggest that the shock is blunter in the T than in the N direction, so that the heliosphere is wider than it is high. The flow in the RN plane has quasi-periodic oscillation with a period of 110 days and an amplitude of 21 km/s. The oscillation in flow angle is about 6° in the RN plane and 17° in the TN plane and may result from periodic variations of the termination shock normal direction. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | American Geophysical Union | en |
| dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009gl038421 | en |
| dc.rights | Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. | en |
| dc.source | John Belcher | en |
| dc.title | Plasma flows in the heliosheath | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Richardson, J. D., E. C. Stone, J. C. Kasper, J. W. Belcher, and R. B. Decker (2009), Plasma flows in the heliosheath, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L10102, doi:10.1029/2009GL038421. © 2009 American Geophysical Union | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research | en_US |
| dc.contributor.approver | Belcher, John Winston | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Richardson, John D. | |
| dc.contributor.mitauthor | Belcher, John Winston | |
| dc.relation.journal | Geophysical Research Letters | en |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en |
| dspace.orderedauthors | Richardson, J. D.; Stone, E. C.; Kasper, J. C.; Belcher, J. W.; Decker, R. B. | en |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3789-2992 | |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_POLICY | en |
| mit.metadata.status | Complete | |
