Absorption signatures of the heliosphere: Voyager Observations, Theory, and Future Prospectsстатья
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Аннотация:Observations of stellar H I Lyman-alpha lines from the Hubble Space Telescope have provided many absorption detections of neutral H in the outer heliosphere. There have recently been new detections of heliospheric absorption, and we have begun to use this additional data in combination with older detections to provide more thorough tests of heliospheric models, including new 3D models that include the effects of the interstellar magnetic field. We find that the heliospheric Lyman-alpha absorption predicted by the models is modestly affected by both the magnitude and orientation of the assumed ISM magnetic field, so there is potential for the absorption to provide constraints on the nature of the interstellar field in the solar neighborhood.