The resolved layer of a collisionless, high beta, supercritical, quasi-perpendicular shock wave. I - Rankine-Hugoniot geometry, currents, and stationarity

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Oct 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....9111019s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, Oct. 1, 1986, p. 11019-11052.

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Bow Waves, Plasma Diagnostics, Shock Wave Propagation, Space Plasmas, Beta Factor, Collisionless Plasmas, Plasma Currents, Plasma Layers, Rankine-Hugoniot Relation, Supercritical Fluids

Scientific paper

Data collected by the ISEE dual-spacecraft mission (on November 7, 1977) on a slowly moving, supercritical, high-beta, quasi-perpendicular bow shock are presented, and the local geometry, spatial scales, and stationarity of this shock wave are assessed in a self-consistent Rankine-Hugoniot-constrained frame of reference. Included are spatial profiles of the ac and dc magnetic and electric fields, electron and proton fluid velocities, current densities, electron and proton number densities, temperatures, pressures, and partial densities of the reflected protons. The observed layer profile is shown to be nearly phase standing and one-dimensional in a Rankine-Hugoniot frame, empirically determined by the magnetofluid parameters outside the layer proper.

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