Voyager 1 Explores the Termination Shock Region and the Heliosheath Beyond
@article{Stone2005Voyager1E, title={Voyager 1 Explores the Termination Shock Region and the Heliosheath Beyond}, author={Edward C. Stone and Alan C. Cummings and Frank B. Mcdonald and Bryant C. Heikkila and N. K. Lal and W. R. Webber}, journal={Science}, year={2005}, volume={309}, pages={2017 - 2020} }
Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock of the supersonic flow of the solar wind on 16 December 2004 at a distance of 94.01 astronomical units from the Sun, becoming the first spacecraft to begin exploring the heliosheath, the outermost layer of the heliosphere. The shock is a steady source of low-energy protons with an energy spectrum ∼E–1.41 ± 0.15 from 0.5 to ∼3.5 megaelectron volts, consistent with a weak termination shock having a solar wind velocity jump ratio \batchmode \documentclass…
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