Report from Sessions 1 and 3, including the Local Bubble Debate
Abstract
This report summarizes the discussions in the Session 1 and Session 3 groups which met to discuss the questions: ``What Physical Processes Drive the Multiphase Interstellar Medium in the Local Bubble?'', and ``What are the Energy and Pressure Balances in the Local Bubble?'' Most of our understanding of the Local Bubble has come from soft X-ray observations, but recent appreciation of the importance of solar wind charge exchange (SWCX) reactions has shown that the heliosphere produces some fraction of the soft X-rays that were previously ascribed to the Local Bubble. Some astronomers suggest that the SWCX X-rays rather than Local Bubble emission could explain most of the locally produced X-rays. Our discussions, therefore, also included a debate concerning the Local Bubble's existence.
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@article{arxiv.0804.2444,
title = {Report from Sessions 1 and 3, including the Local Bubble Debate},
author = {Robin L. Shelton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2444},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, refereed, written version of the oral reports for two of the sessions at the 2007 ISSI conference entitled "From the Outer Heliosphere to the Local Bubble: Comparisons of New Observations with Theory", accepted for publication in the conference proceedings and in Space Science Reviews