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Scarf et al. 1976
Scarf, F.L., Mihalov, J.D., Wolfe, J.H. and Burlaga, L.F. (1976). Variations in plasma characteristics near D sheets in the solar wind. Journal of Geophysical Research 81: doi: 10.1029/JA081i031p05431. issn: 0148-0227.

A strong interplanetary shock was detected by the Pioneer 8 magnetometer, plasma probe, and wave instrument at 0048 UT, on June 11, 1968. During the rest of this day the interplanetary medium was highly disturbed as seven well-defined current layers or D sheets, as well as a number of other localized interaction regions, swept past the spacecraft. The local plasma characteristics that were best correlated with passage of the D sheets appeared to involve changes in the suprathermal electron population. Changes in the 400-Hz wave levels were also detected near the discontinuities during periods when the local ion plasma frequency was near 400 Hz, but the limited measurement capability of the Pioneer 8 wave instrument does not allow an unambiguous identification of the wave-particle interactions associated with these measurements.

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