The Solar Galactic Environment
arXiv:astro-ph/0405167 · doi:10.1063/1.1809547
Abstract
Combined heliosphere-astronomical data and models enrich our understanding both of effects the solar galactic environment might have on the inner heliosphere, and of interstellar clouds. Present data suggest that FeII/DI increases toward the upwind direction of the cluster of interstellar clouds (CLIC) flowing past the Sun. Cloud kinematics and abundances suggest an origin related to a supershell around the Scorpius-Centaurus Association. The solar space trajectory indicates the Sun entered the CLIC gas relatively recently.
3rd Annual IGPP-UCR Astrophysics Conference: Physics of the Outer Heliosphere [AIP]