Statistics
Scientific paper
Feb 1975
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975jgr....80..515f&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 80, Feb. 1, 1975, p. 515-522.
Statistics
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Bow Waves, Laminar Flow, Shock Wave Interaction, Solar Wind Velocity, Standing Waves, Diurnal Variations, Explorer 43 Satellite, Mach Number, Plasma Waves, Supersonic Flow, Variance (Statistics), Whistlers
Scientific paper
Explorer 43 data were used to study 34 bow shock crossings observed from 5 to 16 earth radii upstream of the average bow shock location. Waves with periods of 6 to 130 s having amplitudes up to delta-B/B = 1 were detected. Wave polarization for the low-frequency waves is right-handed in relation to the average field direction when the observer moves from the upstream to downstream direction but is left-handed when the observer moves in the opposite sense. This fact identified the waves as standing whistler waves in the coordinate system of the shock. The waves are in agreement with collisionless low Mach number laminar shock theory. When the measured parameters were used to calculate theoretical wavelengths, the observed wave frequencies could be used to calculate velocities for the shock-wave coordinate system past the spacecraft; such velocities are mostly between 10 and 30 km/s. It is suggested that the higher-frequency propagating whistler waves may evolve from the standing whistler waves through a decay instability.
Fairfield Donald H.
Feldman William C.
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