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astro-ph2004
Magnetic Effects Change Our View of the Heliosheath
M. Opher, P. C. Liewer, M. Velli +5
There is currently a controversy as to whether Voyager 1 has already crossed the Termination Shock, the first boundary of the Heliosphere. The region between the Termination Shock…
astro-ph2004
Magnetic Effects at the Edge of the Solar System: MHD Instabilities, the de Laval nozzle Effect and an Extended Jet
M. Opher, P. C. Liewer, M. Velli +6
To model the interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar wind, magnetic fields must be included. Recently Opher et al. 2003 found that, by including the solar magnetic…
astro-ph2003
Probing the Edge of the Solar System: Formation of an Unstable Jet-Sheet
M. Opher, P. C. Liewer, T. I. Gombosi +4
The Voyager spacecraft is now approaching the edge of the solar system. Near the boundary between the solar system and the interstellar medium we find that an unstable ``jet-sheet'…