ISEE-1 and-2 plasma and magnetic field observations are used to examine several encounters with brief magnetic pulsations in the quasi-parallel region of the earth's bow shock. The two-spacecraft timing of the magnetic field signature is examined to see if the pulsation encounters are nested (as for back and forth motion of the shock over the spacecraft) or simply time-shifted (as for a structure convected anti-sunward across the spacecraft). Examples of both types of signatures are found, some within minutes of each other, suggesting that at least some pulsations probably originate from the growth and steepening of upstream waves but may eventually be able to stand in the upstream flow, perhaps becoming part of the shock surface itself. The possibility that some of the pulsations may simply be brief encounters with the moving shock is also not ruled out.
ISEE studies of the quasi-parallel bow shock
Advances in Space Research ; 8 , 9-10
1988-01-01
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ISEE studies of the quasi-parallel bow shock
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