Excitation of compressional waves and the formation of shocklets in the earth's foreshock

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Bow Waves, International Sun Earth Explorers, Shock Waves, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Wave Packets, Compression Waves, Digital Simulation, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Space Plasmas, Wave Propagation

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Large-amplitude waves in the earth's foreshock are sometimes observed in highly time-developed form, implying that nonlinearities are sufficiently strong to modify their waveforms before the solar wind carries them out of the foreshock. It is presently suggested that parallel propagating waves grow to finite amplitude in the reflected and intermediate ion zones of the earth's foreshock, and refract as they are carried by the solar wind into the 'diffuse' ion region, thereby becoming increasingly oblique and compressional. The time evolution of oblique, low-frequency compressive waves is simulated by means of a one-dimensional hybrid code in which main ions are treated as superparticles, while diffuse ions are seen as a double-adiabatic fluid and electrons as an isothermal fluid.

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