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SCIENCE
卷 326, 期 5955, 页码 962-964出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1180981
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- NASA through sub-contract from Southwest Research Institute
The dominant feature in Interstellar Boundary Explorer ( IBEX) sky maps of heliospheric energetic neutral atom (ENA) flux is a ribbon of enhanced flux that extends over a broad range of ecliptic latitudes and longitudes. It is narrow (similar to 20 degrees average width) but long ( extending over 300 in the sky) and is observed at energies from 0.2 to 6 kilo-electron volts. We demonstrate that the flux in the ribbon is a factor of 2 to 3 times higher than that of the more diffuse, globally distributed heliospheric ENA flux. The ribbon is most pronounced at similar to 1 kilo-electron volt. The average width of the ribbon is nearly constant, independent of energy. The ribbon is likely the result of an enhancement in the combined solar wind and pickup ion populations in the heliosheath.
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