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January 2009: NASA Lunar Science Institute Selected Our proposal to create a team for the new NASA Lunar Science Institute that would be dedicated to studying astrophysical instruments for the lunar surface has been selected by NASA. The team is led by Principle Investigator Prof. Jack Burns (UC Boulder). I am leading the Radio Heliophysics Key Science Project, which will study building a solar radio telescope on the near side of the moon.December 2008: Hot Solar Wind Helium We have published an article in Physical Review Letters that provides compelling evidence from direct measurements than an Alfven-cyclotron dissipation mechanism is responsible for heating the solar wind. The article, "Hot Solar Wind Helium: Direct Evidence for Local Heating by Alfven-Cyclotron Dissipation" appeared in the December 31 issue. A copy is available here. A Commentary on the significance of the article by Prof. Stuart Bale (UC Berkeley) titled "What keeps the solar wind hot?" was published here in the journal Physics.August 2008: Leaving the Heliosphere 
Observations of the Voyager II termination shock crossing have been published in Nature. In our article describing the Voyager PLS instrument measurements of the speed of the solar wind across the termination shock we found that the outflow of solar wind after the termination shock was still supersonic relative to the ion sound speed and was heated far less than we had expected. Follow this link for a copy of our article on the surprising results. |
Leaving the Heliosphere
Observations of the Voyager II termination shock crossing have been published in Nature. Follow this link for a copy of our article on the surprising results. | ||
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