Further investigation on distributions of tangential discontinuity in the solar wind
Abstract
The frequency of the occurrence of the tangential discontinuity (TD) was investigated at thirteen interacting regions (the leading edges) of the solar wind, where each averaged value of the total pressure reaches very much higher values, ranging from 3 × 10 -10 to 12 × 10 -10 erg/m 3, than the non-interacting regions (the troughs or the high velocity regions, ⩽2 × 10 -10 erg/cm 3). The present result that the degree of the occurrence is considerably higher in the interacting region than in the non-interacting region was confirmed to be consistent with our previous result. It was discovered that the occurrence frequency at the interacting region increases when strong interaction has occurred.
- Publication:
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Planetary and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- November 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0032-0633(76)90122-7
- Bibcode:
- 1976P&SS...24.1043S
- Keywords:
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- Discontinuity;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Flow;
- Nonuniform Plasmas;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Solar Wind;
- Density Distribution;
- Solar Wind Velocity;
- Solar Physics