Annales Geophysicae
Annales Geophysicae
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Articles | Volume 36, issue 1
Articles | Volume 36, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-37-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-37-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 36, issue 1
Regular paper
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12 Jan 2018
Regular paper |  | 12 Jan 2018

Uncertainties in the heliosheath ion temperatures

Klaus Scherer, Hans Jörg Fahr, Horst Fichtner, Adama Sylla, John D. Richardson, and Marian Lazar

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The Voyager plasma observations show that the physics of the heliosheath is rather complex and that temperature derived from observation particularly differs from expectations. To explain this fact, the temperature in the heliosheath should be based on κ distributions instead of Maxwellians because the former allows for much higher temperature. Here we show an easy way to calculate the κ temperatures.
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