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In this paper I will use recent results about the heliosphere and the so-called `H walls' around nearby star ‘asteropauses’ (the equivalent of the heliopause for other stars) to show new connections between heliospheric physics and other fields in space physics.
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Lallement, R. Heliopause and asteropauses. Astrophysics and Space Science 277, 205–217 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012284420156
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