Heliospheric termination shock motion in response to LISM variations: Spherically symmetric model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1659-1662

  Ratkiewicz, R ^a,c   Barnes, A ^a   Spreiter, J R ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth Observation   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLASMAS;

FUNCTION OF TIME; INTERSTELLAR MEDIUMS; INTERSTELLAR PLASMA; SYMMETRIC MODEL; TERMINATION SHOCKS; WIND CONDITIONS;

SOLAR WIND; GEOPHYSICS;

HELIOSPHERIC TERMINATION SHOCK MOTION; LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0031176114     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01537     Document Type: Article

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