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Scientific paper
Jun 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86.4803p&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, June 1, 1981, p. 4803-4806.
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Heliosphere, Radiation Pressure, Shock Wave Propagation, Solar Wind, Interstellar Gas, Mach Number, Rankine-Hugoniot Relation, Stellar Winds, Supersonic Flow
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It is noted that according to recent findings, the distant solar wind is more likely to have small Mach numbers (M greater than but close to 1) because it is heated and decelerated by new ions continuously created from interstellar neutral gas. Parker's (1963) equations are therefore extended to accommodate arbitrary Mach numbers using the unabridged Rankine-Hugoniot relations, plus the Bernoulli equation for the polytropic postshock flow, and taking into account the influence of ionizing and charge exchange reactions. The equations found can be applied to the solar wind as well as to other stellar winds of any M greater than 1, irrespective of whether these winds are interacting with interstellar neutral gas.
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