Solar wind flow about the outer planets - Gas dynamic modeling of the Jupiter and Saturn bow shocks

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Jul 1985

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, July 1, 1985, p. 6275-6286.

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Bow Waves, Interplanetary Gas, Jupiter (Planet), Planetary Magnetospheres, Saturn (Planet), Shock Waves, Solar Planetary Interactions, Solar Wind, Dynamic Pressure, Gas Dynamics, Mach Number, Magnetopause, Pioneer Space Probes, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Planets, Solar Wind, Flow, Giant Planets, Gases, Dynamics, Models, Jupiter, Saturn, Bowshock, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Parameters, Magnetopause, Pressure, Shape, Magnetosphere, Thickness, Comparisons, Heliosphere, Featu

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It has been found that the solar wind is diverted about planets through the formation of bow shocks which heat and deflect the flow. These observations are based on missions concerned with Mercury, Venus, earth, and Mars during the 1960s and 1970s. The present study has the objective to extend to Jupiter and Saturn certain aspects of the analyses which have been carried out on the terrestrial planets. In particular, the Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 observations near Jupiter and Saturn are used to characterize the relevant upstream flow parameters at 5 and 9 AU. Attention is given to solar wind parameters, bow shock and magnetopause models, and the solar wind standoff distance, and aspects of gas-dynamic modeling.

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