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Escaping Stellar Particles

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Characterizing Space Plasmas

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Particles from hot stars are continuously escaping. It was known from early on that were it not for such particles, the interplanetary and interstellar space would be a near perfect vacuum with an occasional cosmic ray zipping through. The escaping particles from Sun have been called solar wind (SW). The SW travels across the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) inducing \(\mathcal {EMF}\) that drives a heliospheric current sheet which then interacts with magnetized planets creating structures like magnetospheres populated by high energy particles.

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Parks, G.K. (2018). Escaping Stellar Particles. In: Characterizing Space Plasmas. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90041-4_3

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