Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Workshop 2013

Session

Local interstellar magnetic field, Loop I, and interstellar clouds - Priscilla Frisch, U of Chicago

27 Sept 2013, 08:45

Union South, UW-Madison

27. Local interstellar magnetic field, Loop I, and interstellar clouds

Priscilla Frisch (University of Chicago)

27/09/2013, 08:45

Priscilla Frisch

Before reaching the Earth, galactic cosmic rays must traverse nearby partially ionized low density interstellar clouds. The evolved superbubble known as Loop I appears to order the cloud kinematics and the magnetic field of the interstellar medium (ISM) within tens of parsecs. The direction of the nearby interstellar magnetic field (ISMF) that is found from starlight polarized in the...