Comments on high Mach number magnetosonic shocks

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Nov 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981plap.rept..409p&link_type=abstract

In ESA Plasma Asrophys. p 409-411 (SEE N82-20030 10-88)

Physics

Ion Distribution, Mach Cones, Mach Number, Magnetosonic Resonance, Shock Waves, Thermalization (Energy Absorption), Bow Waves, Distribution Functions, Earth (Planet), Energy Dissipation, Hugoniot Equation Of State

Scientific paper

It is shown that the ion thermalization process required by the Hugoniot conditions for high Mach number magnetosonic shocks is controlled by loss cone type distributions, i.e., (partial differentiation of the ion distribution function/partial differentiation of the ion distribution energy component) zero, formed by a combination of ion reflection and gyration downstream. The thermalization length corresponds to few ion gyroradii, while the final distribution deviates substantially from Maxwellian. The results are applied to the Earth bow shock.

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