tailward en · ADJ
Etymology
From tail + -ward.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Toward the tail.
Both physical arguments and simulations of the global heliosphere indicate that the tailward heliopause is flattened considerably in the direction perpendicular to the large-scale interstellar magnetic field.
2015, Jens Kleimann, Christian Röken, Horst Fichtner, Jacob Heerikhuisen, “Toward more realistic analytic models of the heliotail: Incorporating magnetic flattening via distortion flows”, in arXiv: