Quasi-parallel collisionless shocks

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Aug 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991ssrv...57..201k&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews (ISSN 0038-6308), vol. 57, Aug. 1991, p. 201-236.

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Collisionless Plasmas, Magnetoacoustic Waves, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Shock Wave Interaction, Space Plasmas, Bow Waves, International Sun Earth Explorer 1, International Sun Earth Explorer 2, Magnetic Moments, Magnetopause, Shock Heating, Whistlers

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The magnetic field and plasma data from the ISEE 1, 2, and 3 spacecraft have greatly increased knowledge of the quasi-parallel collisionless shock in space. Hybrid-code simulations have provided valuable insights into the physics of the quasi-parallel shock. Unfortunately, theoretical understanding of the nonlinear physics of the quasi-parallel shock is still in a qualitative stage of development. Generation of large-amplitude whistler waves and hydromagnetic waves observed in the quasi-parallel shock has been discussed either in terms of linear instabilities or qualitative nonlinear arguments. It appears that the ion reflection, ion heating, and leakage of the shock-heated downstream ions at the quasi-parallel shock can all be explained in terms of nonadiabatic scatterings of ions by the large-amplitude whistler-magnetosonic waves with frequencies near the ion gyrofrequency and wavelength near the ion inertial length.

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