HR: 15:45h
AN: SH43A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: The Orientation of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field and Induced Asymmetries on the Heliosphere
AU: * Opher, M
EM: mopher@physics.gmu.edu
AF: George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
AU: Stone, E C
EM: ecs@srl.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, 220-47 Downs, 1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States
AU: Gombosi, T
EM: tamas@umich.edu
AF: Center for Space Environment Modeling, University of Michigan, 1517 Space Research Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
AB: We combine radio emission and energetic particle streaming measurements with extensive 3D MHD computer simulations of magnetic field draping over the heliopause to obtain information on the inclination angle of the local interstellar magnetic field. The orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field introduces asymmetries in the heliosphere that affect the location of radio emission and the streaming direction of ions from the termination shock of the solar wind. In this talk we discuss the orientation of the plane of the local interstellar field and the global asymmetries induced in the heliosphere and in the heliosheath.
DE: 2124 Heliopause and solar wind termination
DE: 2126 Heliosphere/interstellar medium interactions
DE: 2134 Interplanetary magnetic fields
DE: 2149 MHD waves and turbulence (2752, 6050, 7836)
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly