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CIR Morphology, Turbulence, Discontinuities, and Energetic Particles

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Corotating interaction regions (CIRs) in the middle heliosphere have distinct morphological features and associated patterns of turbulence and energetic particles. This report summarizes current understanding of those features and patterns, discusses how they can vary from case to case and with distance from the Sun and possible causes of those variations, presents an analytical model of the morphological features found in earlier qualitative models and numerical simulations, and identifies aspects of the features and patterns that have yet to be resolved.

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  1. Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    N.U. Crooker & G.L. Siscoe

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

    J.T. Gosling

  3. Extraterrestrische Physik, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    V. Bothmer & A. Posner

  4. The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

    R.J. Forsyth, T.S. Horbury, E. Lucek & J.M. Schmidt

  5. San Jose State University Foundation, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA

    P.R. Gazis

  6. Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    A. Hewish

  7. Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, United Kingdom

    T.S. Horbury

  8. Carmel Research Center, Santa Monica, California, USA

    D.S. Intriligator

  9. Depts. of Planetary Sciences and Astronomy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    J.R. Jokipii & J. Kóta

  10. Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA

    A.J. Lazarus

  11. Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

    M.A. Lee

  12. Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

    E. Marsch

  13. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

    I.G. Richardson

  14. Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Maryland, USA

    E.C. Roelof

  15. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

    B.T. Tsurutani

  16. Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    R.F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

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Crooker, N., Gosling, J., Bothmer, V. et al. CIR Morphology, Turbulence, Discontinuities, and Energetic Particles. Space Science Reviews 89, 179–220 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005253526438

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