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Gosling et al. 1995
Gosling, J.T., McComas, D.J., Phillips, J.L., Pizzo, V.J., Goldstein, B.E., Forsyth, R.J. and Lepping, R.P. (1995). A CME-driven solar wind disturbance observed at both low and high heliographic latitudes. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL01776. issn: 0094-8276.

A solar wind disturbance produced by a fast coronal mass ejection, CME, that departed from the Sun on February 20, 1994 was observed in the ecliptic plane at 1 AU by IMP 8 and at high heliographic latitudes at 3.53 AU by Ulysses. In the ecliptic the disturbance included a strong forward shock but no reverse shock, while at high latitudes the disturbance was bounded by a relatively weak forward-reverse shock pair. It is clear that the disturbance in the ecliptic plane was driven primarily by the relative speed between the CME layer and a slower ambient solar wind ahead, whereas at higher latitudes the disturbance was driven by expansion of the CME. The combined IMP 8 and Ulysses observations thus provide a graphic illustration of how a single fast CME can produce very different types of solar wind disturbances at low and high heliograpic latitudes. Simple numerical simulations help explain observed differences at the two spacecraft. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Interplanetary Physics, Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds, Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary magnetic fields, Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary shocks, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Coronal mass ejections
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Geophysical Research Letters
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