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Luhmann et al. 1983
Luhmann, J.G., Tatrallyay, M., Russell, C.T. and Winterhalter, D. (1983). Magnetic field fluctuations in the Venus magnetosheath. Geophysical Research Letters 10: doi: 10.1029/GL010i008p00655. issn: 0094-8276.

Using a model for the convection pattern of the shocked solar wind flow around the Venus obstacle, Pioneer Venus observations of ultra-low-frequency (~10-40 s period) magnetic field fluctuations in the magnetosheath have been traced along streamlines to the region of the quasi-parallel bow shock. The periods and polarizations of the sinusoidal fluctuations are similar to those observed upstream of the quasiparallel bow shock, where streaming superthermal particles are believed to produce MHD waves by a beam-plasma instability. The results suggest that both disturbances at the ionopause at Venus and the earth's magnetopause may be caused by convection of turbulent magnetic fields from the subsolar bow shock when the interplanetary field direction produces a quasi-parallel shock there.

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