2009
DOI: 10.1038/nature08567
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A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the Solar System

Abstract: Magnetic fields play an important (sometimes dominant) role in the evolution of gas clouds in the Galaxy, but the strength and orientation of the field in the interstellar medium near the heliosphere has been poorly constrained. Previous estimates of the field strength range from 1.8-2.5 microG and the field was thought to be parallel to the Galactic plane or inclined by 38-60 degrees (ref. 2) or 60-90 degrees (ref. 3) to this plane. These estimates relied either on indirect observational inferences or modelli… Show more

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“…The model of the interstellar field used in our calculations was found to be able to explain this difference in the framework of the stationary model of the heliosphere . It is also close to the results of Opher et al (2009) The recent energetic neutral atoms observations by IBEX found a ribbon structure of enhanced emission, thought to be caused by the interstellar magnetic field and reflecting its orientation. Heerikhuisen et al (2010) reproduce the ribbon structure seen in the IBEX data using the field (parallel to the hydrogen deflection plane) of strength 3 μG directed towards (224 • , 41 • ) which is (apart from the overall sign change) within about 20 • from our direction.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
“…The model of the interstellar field used in our calculations was found to be able to explain this difference in the framework of the stationary model of the heliosphere . It is also close to the results of Opher et al (2009) The recent energetic neutral atoms observations by IBEX found a ribbon structure of enhanced emission, thought to be caused by the interstellar magnetic field and reflecting its orientation. Heerikhuisen et al (2010) reproduce the ribbon structure seen in the IBEX data using the field (parallel to the hydrogen deflection plane) of strength 3 μG directed towards (224 • , 41 • ) which is (apart from the overall sign change) within about 20 • from our direction.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
“…its large scale component has a tendency to be aligned with the galactic spiral arms (Gaensler 1998). If the strength of the ISM magnetic field can reach up to several tenths of Gauss in the center of our Galaxy (see Rand & Kulkarni 1989;Ohno & Shibata 1993;Opher et al 2009;Shabala et al 2010), it can be even stronger in the cold phase of the ISM (Crutcher et al 1999). In particular, radio polarization measures of the magnetic field in the context of Galactic ionized supershells are reported to be 2-6 µG in Harvey-Smith et al (2011).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most global models of the outer heliosphere treat the ion components of the solar wind as a single MHD fluid [Opher et al, 2006[Opher et al, , 2009Pogorelov et al, 2007;Alouani-Bibi et al, 2011;Ratkiewicz and Grygorczuk, 2008;Izmodenov et al, 2009]. These models do not yield a self-consistent description of the pickup ions; therefore, additional assumptions are needed to link the upstream pickup ion pressure with the downstream pickup ion pressure across the termination shock [Zank et al, 1996[Zank et al, , 2010Fahr and Chalov, 2008].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%