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Voyager 2 plasma observations of the heliopause and interstellar medium

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Voyager 2 crossed the heliopause on 5 November 2018 at 119 AU; a boundary layer about 1.5 AU wide preceded it in which the plasma slowed, heated and was roughly twice as dense as typical heliosheath plasma; the transition took less than a day, and the interstellar plasma immediately outside was hotter than predicted, of order 30,000–50,000 °C against a prediction nearer 15,000–30,000 °C. V55 verification basis: the paper was not fetched — nature.com is blocked to this session — but search results carried these figures and attributed them to it.

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