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Moon et al. 2002
Moon, Y.-J., Dryer, M., Smith, Z., Park, Y.D. and Cho, K.S. (2002). A revised shock time of arrival (STOA) model for interplanetary shock propagation: STOA-2. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2002GL014865. issn: 0094-8276.

We have examined a possibility for improvement of the STOA (Shock Time Of Arrival) model for interplanetary shock propagation. In the STOA model, the shock propagating velocity is given by Vs ~ R-N with N = 0.5, where R is the heliocentric distance. Noting observational and numerical findings that the radial dependence of shock wave velocity depends on initial shock wave velocity, we suggest a simple modified STOA model (STOA-2) which has a linear relationship between initial coronal shock wave velocity (Vis) and its deceleration exponent(N), N = 0.05 + 4 ¿ 10-4Vis, where Vis is a numeric value expressed in units of km s-1. Our results show that the STOA-2 model not only removes a systematic dependence of the transit time difference predicted by the previous STOA model on initial shock velocity, but also reduces the number of events with large transit time differences.

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Keywords
Space Plasma Physics, Shock waves, Space Plasma Physics, Numerical simulation studies, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Corona, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Flares
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Geophysical Research Letters
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