Rotational discontinuities in an anisotropic plasma-II

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Mar 1973

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973p%26ss...21..475h&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, Volume 21, Issue 3, p. 475-483.

Physics

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The theoretical work on rotational discontinuities in an anisotropic plasma is extended and the results are presented in a form more convenient for comparison with observations in the solar wind. Diagrams are presented to help observers identify rotational discontinuities using the values of ρ, B and β on either side. Under average solar wind conditions at 1 AU it is found that B and ρ change by at most a factor of ~1.7, and in a β <~ 0.4 plasma ρ changes by at most a factor of 1.1 and B is virtually constant. The changes in physical parameters across a typical rotational discontinuity are illustrated, and the special cases of downstream isotropy and of p⊥/Bρ = constant are considered in detail.

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