Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsh41c..02r&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SH41C-02
Physics
Plasma Physics
[7851] Space Plasma Physics / Shock Waves
Scientific paper
The interplanetary plasma provides an excellent laboratory for studying collisionless shocks. Strong, standing bow shocks form around all obstacles to the solar wind, from comets to induced magnetospheres to intrinsic magnetospheres. Weak shocks are formed in the solar wind in front of many coronal mass ejections and in the interactions of fast and slow streams. The structure of these weaker shocks is, in general, simple, and permits greater insight into dissipation processes. By examining CME-driven shocks near the Sun at Helios and stream-interaction driven shocks at STEREO, we can learn how such shocks form out of compressional waves, how they strengthen, how the thin shock ramp interacts with the larger thermal gyroradius of the ions to produce the observed downstream structure of these shocks, and how and when upstream waves are produced.
Blanco-Cano Xochitl
Jian Li
Luhmann Janet G.
Russell Christopher T.
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