Helium_focusing_cone Knowpia

A helium focusing cone is a concentration of helium atoms that has passed through the Sun's heliosphere and is concentrated in a conical region on the opposite side from where the particles entered.^[1]

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^ Michaels, J.G; Raymond, J.C.; Bertaux, J.L.; Quémerais, E.; Lallement, R.; Ko, Y.-K.; Spadaro, D.; Gardner, L.D. (20 March 2002). "The Helium Focusing Cone of the Local Interstellar Medium Close to the Sun". The Astrophysical Journal. 568 (1): 385–395. Bibcode:2002ApJ...568..385M. doi:10.1086/338764. Retrieved 9 February 2024.

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Observations of the helium focusing cone with pickup ions
The Flow of Interstellar Helium in the Solar System
A Breeze from the Stars, NASA

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