What is the Heliopause? Importance of magnetic reconnection and measurement requirements
Whitepaper #230 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: basic research. Additional topics: outer heliosphere; emerging opportunities.
by Benoit Lavraud, Marc Kornbleuth, Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Vincent Génot, T. Marshall Eubanks, Drew Turner, Andrey Fedorov, Thomas Y. Chen, Parisa Mostafavi, Stefan Eriksson, James Drake, Marc Swisdak, Elena Provornikova, Merav Opher, Nicolas Andre, Kostas Dialynas, John Richardson, Michel Blanc, Stanislas Barabash, Ralph McNutt, Pontus Brandt, Peter Kollmann, and Harald Kucharek
Published onJul 31, 2023
What is the Heliopause? Importance of magnetic reconnection and measurement requirements
We highlight the importance of magnetic reconnection at the Heliopause (HP), both as a key processe driving the interaction between solar and interstellar media, but also as an element of the definition of the HP itself. We explain that discriminating between current interpretations of plasma and magnetic field data near the HP necessitates appropriate measurements which are lacking on V1 and V2.
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