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Richardson, I.G. and Cane, H.V. (1993). Signatures of shock drivers in the solar wind and their dependence on the solar source location. Journal of Geophysical Research 98: doi: 10.1029/93JA01466. issn: 0148-0227. |
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Solar wind and energetic ion observations following 40 interplanetary shocks with well-established solar source locations have been examined in order to determine whether signatures characteristic of the coronal material forming the shock driver are present. The signatures considered include magnetic-field-aligned bidirectional ion flows observed by the ISEE 3 and IMP 8 spacecraft; bidirectional solar wind electron heat fluxes; solar wind plasma proton and electron temperature depressions; low-&bgr; plasma; enhanced, low-variance magnetic fields; and energetic ion depressions. Several shock driver signatures are commonly observed following shocks originating from within ~50¿ of central meridian and are generally absent for other events. We conclude that shock drivers generally extend up to ~100¿ in longitude, centered on the solar source longitude. This is around twice as large as the typical latitudinal extent of coronal mass ejections inferred from limb coronagraph observations. A particular shock driver signature is typically found following ~80% of shocks from near-central meridian events. However, only ~20% of shocks from near-central meridian events are associated with the bidirectional 35--1000 keV ion events discussed by Marsden et al. (1987). Since shocks from central meridian events are not usually associated with all the shock driver signatures examined, the absence of a driver cannot be confirmed from consideration of one of these signatures alone. We also find evidence that a few bidirectional energetic ion and solar wind electron heat flux events following shocks (in particular from far eastern sources) may occur on open field lines outside of shock drivers. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1993 |
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Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary shocks, Interplanetary Physics, Energetic particles, Interplanetary Physics, Flare and stream dynamics, Interplanetary Physics, Sources of the solar wind |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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