Overshoots in planetary bow shocks

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982natur.296...45r&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 296, Mar. 4, 1982, p. 45-48.

Physics

39

Bow Waves, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Plasma Interactions, Shock Wave Interaction, Solar Wind, Wave Reflection, Electron Energy, Mach Number, Proton Energy

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The parametric variation with solar wind conditions in the overshoot in magnetic field strength observed in planetary bow shocks and believed to be associated with the ion reflection process is examined based on both terrestrial and planetary bow shock data. The combined data from Venus, earth, Jupiter and Saturn cover a wider range of solar wind densities, magnetic field strength, electron and proton temperatures, Mach numbers, beta, spiral angle, and scale lengths than observable from earth alone. The bow shock structure, particularly the magnitude of the post-shock field strength overshoot, is found to depend principally on plasma beta and the magnetosonic Mach number with a continuously increasing overshoot strength associated with increasing beta and Mach number.

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