Accretion of interstellar material into the heliosphere and onto Earth

Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 317-348

  Yeghikyan, Ararat ^a   Fahr, Hans J ^b  

^a BYURAKAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Earth: accretion of interstellar matter; interplanetary physics: heliopause and solar wind termination; ISM: clouds; solar wind hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952455026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4557-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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