The Solar Galactic Environment
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
Combined heliosphere-astronomical data and models enrich our understanding both of effects the solar galactic environment might have on the inner heliosphere, and of interstellar clouds. Present data suggest that FeII/DI increases toward the upwind direction of the cluster of interstellar clouds (CLIC) flowing past the Sun. Cloud kinematics and abundances suggest an origin related to a supershell around the Scorpius-Centaurus Association. The solar space trajectory indicates the Sun entered the CLIC gas relatively recently.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405167,
title = {The Solar Galactic Environment},
author = {P. C. Frisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405167},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3rd Annual IGPP-UCR Astrophysics Conference: Physics of the Outer Heliosphere [AIP]