The solar wind interaction with Venus - Pioneer Venus observations of bow shock location and structure

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Dec 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.7625s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Dec. 30, 1980, p. 7625-7641.

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Venus, Pvo Mission, Spacecraft Observations, Solar Wind, Bow Shock, Shape, Position (Location), Structure, Ionopause, Altitude, Electrical Fields, Magnetic Fields, Comparisons, Downstream, Magnetosphere, Magnetotail

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Pioneer Venus observations are used in carrying out a study of the location and structure of the Venus bow shock. The trace of the shock in the solar wind aberrated terminator plane is almost circular at an altitude of 1.38 Venus radii independent of interplanetary magnetic field orientation with an extrapolated subsolar height of 0.38 Venus radii. Gas dynamic relations and scaling of the terrestrial analogue are used in determining the effective impenetrable obstacle altitude from the mean shock surface with the conclusion that it lies beneath the observed height of the ionopause. The short-term variability in shock position is similar to that found at the earth; over the long-term bow shock, altitude varies by up to approximately 35% in phase with the solar cycle for reasons other than changing solar wind Mach number. In contrast to ionopause position, which is shown to be well determined by external pressure measurements, it is found that bow shock altitude is only weakly dependent on ionopause height and solar wind dynamic pressure.

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