A transient solar wind disturbance observed at both low and high heliographic latitudes

Details A transient solar wind disturbance observed at both low and high heliographic latitudes A transient solar wind disturbance observed at both low and high heliographic latitudes

Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.conf...98g&link_type=abstract

International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 98

Physics

Stellar Mass Ejection, Solar Wind, Magnetic Storms, Shock Waves, Reversed Flow, Solar Corona, Sun, Solar Planetary Interactions, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Physics, Ulysses Mission, Polar Regions, Internal Pressure, High Pressure, Explorer 50 Satellite, Solar Wind Velocity

Scientific paper

Ulysses observations have revealed a new class of forward-reverse shock pairs in the solar wind that appears to be restricted to high heliographic latitudes. Shock pairs in this new class of events are produced by over-expansion (i.e., expansion driven by a high internal pressure) of coronal mass ejections, CMEs, that have speeds comparable to that of the surrounding solar wind plasma. Here we compare low- and high-latitude observations of an event observed both near Earth by IMP 8 and at high latitudes by Ulysses. At the time of these observations Ulysses was at 3.53 AU and was situated 47.2 deg south and 11.4 deg west of Earth (in the sense of planetary motion about the Sun). A fast CME that departed from the Sun on February 20, 1994 produced both a major (forward) shock wave disturbance in the ecliptic plane at 1 AU (and a large geomagnetic storm) and a forward reverse shock pair associated with over-expansion of the CME at high heliographic latitudes. The combined measurements provide a graphic illustration of how the same fast CME can produce totally different types of disturbances at low and high latitudes. Differences in the disturbances generated by the CME at high and low latitudes are due primarily to the different speeds initially prevailing in the ambient solar wind ahead of it. These observations are consistent with the results of simple numerical simulations of the event.

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