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Abraham-Shrauner & Yun 1976
Abraham-Shrauner, B. and Yun, S.H. (1976). Interplanetary shocks seen by Ames plasma probe on Pioneer 6 and 7. Journal of Geophysical Research 81: doi: 10.1029/JA081i013p02097. issn: 0148-0227.

Interplanetary shocks and discontinuities observed by the Ames Research Center plasma probe on Pioneer 6 and 7 are analyzed with Goddard Space Flight Center magnetometer data. Several shock normals are used for the MHD model of a shock where the mixed data shock normals, which use plasma and magnetic field data, give the best agreement with the theoretical requirements. The requirements are the satisfaction of the Rankine-Hugoniot conservation equations across the shock where angles (predicted theoretically from the conservation equations) between certain combinations of plasma and magnetic field data vectors in the shock normals are explicitly checked. The results for the August 29, 1966, shock are compared with previous results.

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