On the overtaking interaction of typical shock waves in the solar wind flow |
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Authors: | S A Grib |
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Institution: | 1.Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory,Russian Academy of Sciences,St. Petersburg,Russia |
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Abstract: | The interaction of traveling fast solar shock waves with other fast shock waves generated previously is considered in terms
of magnetohydrodynamics for various solar wind parameters. The shocks are not piston ones and move freely in the flow. The
magnetic structure in the interplanetary magnetic field emerging after the shock interaction is shown to correspond to the
well-known magnetic configuration commonly observed on spacecraft or the classical Hundhausen R model. A head-on collision of solar shock waves with the boundary of a magnetic cloud is considered. It is pointed out that
a slow shockwave refracted into the magnetic cloud can appear at an oblique collision of the shock with the cloud boundary.
The results clarify our understanding of the available spacecraft data. |
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