Priscilla Frisch
(University of Chicago)
27/09/2013, 08:45
Priscilla Frisch
Before reaching the Earth, galactic cosmic rays must traverse nearby
partially ionized low density interstellar clouds. The evolved
superbubble known as Loop I appears to order the cloud kinematics and
the magnetic field of the interstellar medium (ISM) within tens of parsecs.
The direction of the nearby interstellar magnetic field (ISMF) that is
found from starlight polarized in the...