Effects in the inner heliosphere caused by changing conditions in the galactic environment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 209-258

  Möbius, Eberhard ^a   Bzowski, MacIek ^b   Müller, Hans Reinhard ^c   Wurz, Peter ^d  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

energetic neutral atoms; energetic particles; heliosphere ISM interaction; interstellar cloud variations; Neutral particles; pickup ions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889954586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4557-3_8     Document Type: Chapter

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