Using TeV Cosmic Rays to probe the Heliosphere’s Boundary with the Local Interstellar Medium
Whitepaper #093 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: outer heliosphere; ground-based missions/projects; emerging opportunities.
by Paolo Desiati, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Gwenael Giacinti, Francesco Longo, Elena Orlando, Nikolai Pogorelov, and Zhang Ming
Published onJul 31, 2023
Using TeV Cosmic Rays to probe the Heliosphere’s Boundary with the Local Interstellar Medium
The outer heliosphere regulates cosmic ray penetration into near-Earth space, reduces space radiation, and makes life possible in our solar system. Voyager and IBEX in-situ and remote observations of the outer heliosphere and the distorted local interstellar magnetic are important for heliospheric modeling. TeV cosmic rays provide a new tool to study the heliosphere interstellar medium boundary.
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