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Angular Scattering in Charge Exchange: Issues and Implications for Secondary Interstellar Hydrogen
P. Swaczyna, D. J. McComas, E. J. Zirnstein +1
Interstellar neutral atoms provide a remote diagnostic of plasma in the outer heliosheath and the very local interstellar medium via charge exchange collisions that convert ions in…
In Situ Observations of Preferential Pickup Ion Heating at an Interplanetary Shock
E. J. Zirnstein, D. J. McComas, R. Kumar +6
Non-thermal pickup ions (PUIs) are created in the solar wind (SW) by charge-exchange between SW ions (SWIs) and slow interstellar neutral atoms. It has long been theorized, but not…
Interstellar Pickup Ion Observations to 38 AU
D. J. McComas, E. J. Zirnstein, M. Bzowski +9
We provide the first direct observations of interstellar H+ and He+ pickup ions in the solar wind from 22 AU to 38 AU. We use the Vasyliunas and Siscoe model functional form to qua…