Signatures of shock drivers in the solar wind and their dependence on the solar source location

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Sep 1993

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A9, p. 15,295-15,304.

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Energetic Particles, Ion Motion, Shock Waves, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Electron Energy, Flux (Rate), Plasma Composition, Stellar Mass Ejection

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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-beta plasma; enhanced, low-variance magnetic fields; and energetic ion depressions. Several shock driver signatures are commonly observed following shocks originating from within about 50 deg of central meridian, and are generally absent for other events. We conclude that shock drivers generally extend up to about 100 deg in longitude, centered on the solar source longitude. 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.

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