Conference proceeding
Radio Noise in the Heliospheric Cavity
COSPAR Colloquia Series, Vol.1, pp.267-275
1990
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-040780-7.50048-8
Abstract
The Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager missions are providing us with the capability of viewing the heliosphere from a more global perspective than previously possible. One aspect of the heliosphere which is especially intriguing in an astrophysical sense is the fact that the heliosphere is the source of a wide variety of radio emissions. These emissions, in order of relative intensity, are generated at the sun, in planetary magnetospheres, and in the heliospheric cavity, itself. The focus of this paper will be the latter category, specifically, low frequency interplanetary emissions since these might possibly be generated as a result of the interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium. We will summarize the observations by the Voyager spacecraft of these low frequency emissions and discuss the various possible sources of the emission. The most exciting possibility is that these radio emissions are generated at either the terminal shock or the heliopause providing the first remote evidence for the termination of the interplanetary medium.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Radio Noise in the Heliospheric Cavity
- Creators
- W.S. Kurth - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- COSPAR Colloquia Series, Vol.1, pp.267-275
- DOI
- 10.1016/B978-0-08-040780-7.50048-8
- ISSN
- 0964-2749
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1990
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984455273302771
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