Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Workshop 2011

Session

Heliosphere and Local ISM II

session4_day2

29 Oct 2011, 16:00

309 (University of Wisconsin Pyle Center)

13. Solar Wind Interaction with the Local Interstellar Medium: Heliosheath and Heliotail Flows

Prof. Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

29/10/2011, 16:00

The Sun moves through the local interstellar medium (LISM) ejecting charged particles with velocities that eventually become greater than the fast magnetosonic velocity. A surface separating the LISM material from the solar wind (SW) plasma is called the heliopause. The SW is decelerated by the heliopause creating a heliospheric termination shock. A region of the SW plasma between the...

16. Direction of the Interstellar Magnetic Field in the Solar Vicinity

Dr Priscilla Frisch (University of Chicago)

29/10/2011, 16:30

Similar directions are obtained for the local interstellar magnetic field (ISMF) by comparing diverse data that sample five orders of magnetic in spatial scales. The direction of the ISMF that shapes the heliosphere, and that is traced by the ribbon of energetic neutral atoms discovered by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, is compared to the ISMF direction obtained from...

11. The Anisotropy of TeV Cosmic Rays: an interpretation

Dr Rasha Abbasi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

29/10/2011, 17:00

The history of anisotropy measurements has a long history and some attempts at interpretations have already been made. The early measurements are important in view of giving a check on the validity of the contemporary exciting measurements. So far they seem to confirm and complement them, at least for the large scale anisotropies. The small scale anisotropies, forming 'striations'...