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Interstellar Pickup Ion Observations to 38 au

  • Authors: D. J. McComas, E. J. Zirnstein, M. Bzowski, H. A. Elliott, B. Randol, N. A. Schwadron, J. M. Sokół, J. R. Szalay, C. Olkin, J. Spencer, A. Stern, and H. Weaver

2017 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 233 8.

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Caption: Figure 1.

Schematic diagram of the New Horizons trajectory (orange) compared with the Voyager (green) and Pioneer (red) trajectories, all projected into the ecliptic plane (Voyager 1 and 2 are ∼30° above and below this plane, respectively). The colored background indicates the fraction of the upstream interstellar H that survives at various locations from the “hot model” (Thomas 1978; Wu & Judge 1979), as was done to show the interstellar hydrogen shadow (dark region downwind of the Sun) by McComas et al. (2004).

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