Relations estimated at shock discontinuities excited by coronal mass ejections

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An analysis of SOHO/LASCO C3 data shows that there are discontinuities in the radial profiles of the plasma density within limited regions in front of each of ten coronal mass ejections, which represent shocks. The shock velocities in various events reach V ≈ 800-2500 km/s. A comparison of the dependence of the AlfvenicMach number M A on the shock strength ρ 2/ ρ 1 detected at distances R > 10 R&sun; from the center of the Sun with calculations carried out using ideal magnetic hydrodynamics shows that the effective ratio of specific heats γ describing processes inside the shock front varies from 2 to 5/3 ( ρ 1 and ρ 2 are the densities in front of and behind the shock, and R&sun; is the solar radius). This corresponds to an effective number of degrees of freedom between two and three. A similar dependence MA( ρ 2 /ρ 1) was found for near-Earth bow shocks and interplanetary collisionless shocks. These features support the hypothesis that the studied discontinuities preceding coronal mass ejections are collisionless shocks.

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