Temporal variations in the termination shock distance

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Sep 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9815147s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A9, p. 15,147-15,155.

Physics

52

Bow Waves, Heliosphere, Periodic Variations, Shock Waves, Solar Wind, Dynamic Models, Interstellar Matter, Subsonic Flow, Transition Flow

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A kinematic analysis is made of solar wind driven temporal variations in the heliospheric termination shock distance. This has become possible because the large-scale dynamics of, and temporal variations in the distant solar wind are now well enough known from a combination of in situ and remote measurements. Conversely, nothing is known of the corresponding properties in the local interstellar medium, and hence these will be ignored. Given specific assumptions for how the termination shock responds to solar wind fluctuations, it is shown that the termination shock is very agile, moving in and out by up to a few AU in a month. This conclusion holds for a broad range of shock response assumptions. Because a spacecraft moves slowly in comparison to the termination shock, the shock will sweep back and forth over the spacecraft once the shock is first encountered.

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