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A revised shock time of arrival (STOA) model for interplanetary shock propagation: STOA‐2
Author(s) -
Moon Y.J.,
Dryer M.,
Smith Z.,
Park Y. D.,
Cho K. S.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2002gl014865
Subject(s) - shock wave , shock (circulatory) , physics , interplanetary spaceflight , transit time , astrophysics , computational physics , solar wind , mechanics , nuclear physics , medicine , plasma , transport engineering , engineering
We have examined a possibility for improvement of the STOA (Shock Time Of Arrival) model for interplanetary shock propagation. In the STOA model, the shock propagating velocity is given by V s ∼ R − N with N = 0.5, where R is the heliocentric distance. Noting observational and numerical findings that the radial dependence of shock wave velocity depends on initial shock wave velocity, we suggest a simple modified STOA model (STOA‐2) which has a linear relationship between initial coronal shock wave velocity ( V is ) and its deceleration exponent(N), N = 0.05 + 4 × 10 −4 V is , where V is is a numeric value expressed in units of km s −1 . Our results show that the STOA‐2 model not only removes a systematic dependence of the transit time difference predicted by the previous STOA model on initial shock velocity, but also reduces the number of events with large transit time differences.