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Greenstadt et al. 1990
Greenstadt, E.W., Traver, D.P., Coroniti, F.V., Smith, E.J. and Slavin, J.A. (1990). Observations of the flank of Earth’s bow shock TO -110 RE by ISEE 3/ICE. Geophysical Research Letters 17: doi: 10.1029/90GL00870. issn: 0094-8276.

The ISEE 3/ICE spacecraft made well over 100 crossings of Earth's bow shock between x(SEC)=-20 and -110 RE, most of them further away than -60 RE, while resetting its course for comet Giacobini-Zinner. Magnetosonic Mach numbers MMS normal to the shock in this extreme downwind flank of the bow shock were generally no more than about 60%, often less than 35% of their values at the subsolar point, so that this set of crossings consists of many examples of low MMS (MMS<3) crossings, including rare quasi-parallel, as well as quasi-perpendicular, cases. We tabulate the parameters of the crossings, display some of their magnetic, plasma wave, and spectral profiles at low MMS, and compare loci of crossings with the extrapolation of a model of earlier statistical success, showing that the model remains useful in the far flank. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1990

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Interplanetary Physics, Planetary bow shocks
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Geophysical Research Letters
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