Transition of slow shocks to fast shocks

Details Transition of slow shocks to fast shocks Transition of slow shocks to fast shocks

Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.conf..100w&link_type=abstract

Catholic Univ. of America, International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 100

Physics

Stellar Mass Ejection, Shock Waves, Magnetohydrodynamics, Solar Wind, Coronas

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As a CME pushes its way through preceding slower solar wind, large disturbances in the interaction region may evolve to form transient MHD shocks. The shocks can be slow shocks in the coronal space but they appear as fast shocks near 1 AU. We use a polytropic MHD model to study the transition of slow shocks to fast shocks in an interaction region sandwiched between a faster solar wind and a slower solar wind near the equatorial plane. The polytropic index controls the radial increase of Beta outside the interaction region. The transition process is attributed chiefly to the increase of Beta and theta to a lesser degree to the radial increase of the shock angle 0. Under the initial condition of small Beta and theta near 0.1 AU, the interaction region evolves to form a pair of slow shocks inside 0.15 AU. As the interaction region convects outward. the increases of B and theta cause a transition of the shock system between 0.15 and 0.3 AU from a slow shock pair to a double shock pair consisting of both slow and fast shocks. As the system moves outward, and Beta continue to increase, the fast shock grows stronger, and the slow shock becomes weaker. Eventually. the slow shocks fade away, and the shock system finally evolves to a pair of fast shocks. Parametric studies of the transition process are carried out for shocks formed over a wide range of disturbances.

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