The Heliosphere in the Local Interstellar Medium

Science as an Adventure.- The Heliosphere.- The Heliosphere.- The Heliospheric Magnetic Field.- The Solar Wind: A Turbulent Magnetohydrodynamic Medium.- Voyager Observations of the Magnetic Field, Interstellar Pickup Ions and Solar Wind in the Distant Heliosphere.- Origin of C+ Ions in the Heliosphere.- Radio Emissions from the Outer Heliosphere.- A Summary of Solar Wind Observations at High Latitudes: Ulysses.- Ionization Processes in the Heliosphere — Rates and Methods of Their Determination.- 3-D Magnetic Field and Current System in the Heliosphere.- Modelling the Heliosphere.- The Termination Shock.- The Termination Shock of the Solar Wind.- Composition of Anomalous Cosmic Rays and Implications for the Heliosphere.- Implications of a Weak Termination Shock.- The Acceleration of Pickup Ions.- The Isotopic Composition of Anomalous Cosmic Rays from SAMPEX.- The Local Interstellar Medium.- GHRS Observations of the LISM.- In Situ Measurements of Interstellar Dust with the Ulysses and Galileo Spaceprobes.- The Local Bubble, Current State of Observations and Models.- The Local Bubble, Origin and Evolution.- The Interstellar Gas Flow Through the Heliospheric Interface Region.- LISM Structure — Fragmented Superbubble Shell?.- Relative Ionizations in the Nearest Interstellar Gas.- Properties of the Interstellar Gas Inside the Heliosphere.- Local Clouds: Distribution, Density and Kinematics Through Ground-Based and HST Spectroscopy.- Possible Shock Wave in the Local Interstellar Plasma, Very Close to the Heliosphere.- Interstellar Grains in the Solar System: Requirements for an Analysis.- Modelling of the Interstellar Hydrogen Distribution in the Heliosphere.- Observations of the Local Interstellar Medium with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer.- Recent Results on theParameters of the Interstellar Helium from the Ulysses/GAS Experiment.- Interaction Between HS And Lism.- Physical and Chemical Characteristics of the ISM Inside and Outside the Heliosphere.- Axisymmetric Self-Consistent Model of the Solar Wind Interaction with the LISM: Basic Results and Possible Ways of Development.- UV Studies and the Solar Wind.- Quasilinear Relaxation of Interstellar Pickup Ions.- The Abundance of Atomic 1H, 4He, and 3He in the Local Interstellar Cloud from Pickup Ion Observations with SWICS on Ulysses.- Physics of Interplanetary and Interstellar Dust.- Relations Between ISM Inside and Outside the Heliosphere.- The Local Interstellar Medium Viewed Through Pickup Ions, Recent Results and Future Perspectives.- Moment Equation Description of Interstellar Hydrogen.- Pickup Protons in the Heliosphere.- Author index.