Effects of interstellar and solar wind ionized helium on the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium

Vlad Izmodenov, Yury G. Malama, George Gloeckler +1

The Sun is moving through a warm ($\sim$6500 K) and partly ionized local interstellar cloud (LIC) with a velocity of $\sim$26 km/s. Recent measurements of the ionization of the LIC…