Statistics
Scientific paper
Jun 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.conf...43l&link_type=abstract
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 43
Statistics
Heliosphere, Solar Wind, Shock Waves, Magnetohydrodynamics, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Three Dimensional Models, Ulysses Mission, Mathematical Models
Scientific paper
Observations from Voyager 2 as it moved from 10 to 14 deg S heliographic latitude in the period from 1992 through 1994 were used to gather statistics on the relative number of forward and reverse shocks. These results can be used to compare with observations from the Ulysses spacecraft which moved from 6 deg S to 70 deg S heliographic latitude during that time period. The Ulysses observations are in agreement with a 3-D, MHD model of the evolution of a steady tilted-dipole solar wind flow configuration prevalent in 1993. The model predicts and the Ulysses observations confirm a preponderance of reverse shocks at Ulysses latitudes poleward of streamer-belt latitudes. A preliminary scan of the Voyager data supports the complementary prediction of the model that forward fronts should dominate at large heliocentric distances near the heliographic equatorial plane during the same time period.
Belcher John W.
Gosling Jack T.
Lazarus Andrew J.
Paularena Karolen I.
Pizzo Victor J.
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