Comments on: Explaining Cosmic Rays http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/25/explaining-cosmic-rays/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:48:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Amara http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/25/explaining-cosmic-rays/#comment-1387 Amara Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:28:46 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/25/explaining-cosmic-rays/#comment-1387 Clifford: I am familiar with the work of his colleague: Priscilla Frisch, because she has worked with my old thesis advisor (and Zank) on the interstellar dust flowing through our solar system, which has been detected by almost every dust dectector flying in interplanetary space. Frisch (and a large group of their collaborators) wrote an excellent paper titled: <a href="http://astro.uchicago.edu/~frisch/papers/lisw/lisw.html" rel="nofollow">Dust in the Local Instellar Wind</a> on this topic. You can see a nice map of their results <a href="http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/dune/content/map.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>. which is probably related to the work to which you are referring. I see from her <a href="http://astro.uchicago.edu/~frisch/papers/papers.html" rel="nofollow">Papers</a> page something more specific about her work <a href="http://astro.uchicago.edu/~frisch/papers/alpha_cen.html" rel="nofollow"> with Zank about Alpha Cen</a> . So while I have not followed what you are talking of, I know where I can learn about it! Clifford: I am familiar with the work of his colleague: Priscilla Frisch, because she has worked with my old thesis advisor (and Zank) on the interstellar dust flowing through our solar system, which has been detected by almost every dust dectector flying in interplanetary space. Frisch (and a large group of their collaborators) wrote an excellent paper titled: Dust in the Local Instellar Wind on this topic. You can see a nice map of their results here. which is probably related to the work to which you are referring.

I see from her Papers page something more specific about her work with Zank about Alpha Cen . So while I have not followed what you are talking of, I know where I can learn about it!

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/25/explaining-cosmic-rays/#comment-1382 Clifford Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:22:02 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/25/explaining-cosmic-rays/#comment-1382 Hey Amara! The other thing he mentioned during his visit was the work they did on observations of the solar wind on other G-tye stars, using observations of the nearby Centauri systems, combined with their work on the "hydrogen wall"... which is sort of the smoking gun, when you look at lyman alpha spectra. This was quite impressive sounding. Have you followed that? Cheers, -cvj Hey Amara!

The other thing he mentioned during his visit was the work they did on observations of the solar wind on other G-tye stars, using observations of the nearby Centauri systems, combined with their work on the “hydrogen wall”… which is sort of the smoking gun, when you look at lyman alpha spectra. This was quite impressive sounding. Have you followed that?

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Amara http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/25/explaining-cosmic-rays/#comment-1371 Amara Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:57:55 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/25/explaining-cosmic-rays/#comment-1371 I remember (not very well on details) Zank's work 5+ years ago to model the heliosphere. It seems to me that his CME-driven shocks could be a useful aspect of the Heliospheric Modeling part of the <a href="http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/" rel="nofollow">STEREO</a> Project (click on 'Models at a Glance' to see the Heliosphere models. The corotating interaction regions of the solar wind are evident in interplanetary dust stream data, and CMEs are followed pretty well now too. I wonder how many other solar wind phenomena we can track through the solar system. (I like this aspect of 'space weather' alot.) I remember (not very well on details) Zank’s work 5+ years ago to model the heliosphere. It seems to me that his CME-driven shocks could be a useful aspect of the Heliospheric Modeling part of the STEREO Project (click on ‘Models at a Glance’ to see the Heliosphere models. The corotating interaction regions of the solar wind are evident in interplanetary dust stream data, and CMEs are followed pretty well now too. I wonder how many other solar wind phenomena we can track through the solar system. (I like this aspect of ’space weather’ alot.)

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