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First Detection of 4He in a Sample of Interstellar Neutral Gas Collected Onboard Mir Station

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For the first time, the method of collecting impinging atoms in pretreated foil surfaces during exposure from a spacecraft allowed to detect in the laboratory, after retrieval of the foils,4He gas of interstellar origin in the expected concentration.

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  1. Physikalisches Institut, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland

    F. BÜhler, M.L. Bassi, P. Bochsler, O. Eugster & E. Salerno

  2. Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, 117810, Moscow, Russia

    G.N. Zastenker, YU.N. Agafonov, L.G. Gevorkov, N.A. Eismont, A.V. Prudkoglyad & V.V. Khrapchenkov

  3. Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, Lenin street 4a, Korolyov, 141700, Moscow region, Russia

    N.I. Shvets

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BÜhler, F., Bassi, M., Bochsler, P. et al. First Detection of 4He in a Sample of Interstellar Neutral Gas Collected Onboard Mir Station. Astrophysics and Space Science 274, 19–24 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026558814412

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