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Discontinuities in an anisotropic plasma and their identification in the solar wind
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The types of discontinuity which can occur in a magnetohydrodynamic fluid with anistotropic pressure are discussed in this article, and rules are given for the identification of the type of discontinuities together with equations to determine their orientation and velocity.About:
This article is published in Planetary and Space Science.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 343 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shocks and discontinuities & Discontinuity (geotechnical engineering).read more
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Mirror and Firehose Instabilities in the Heliosheath
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the nature of the heliosheath plasma behind the termination shock across which jump relations in anisotropic MHD are formulated and numerically solve the Rankine-Hugoniot relations for arbitrary shock angle and strength.
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Nonlinear interaction of discontinuities in the solar wind and the origin of slow shocks
TL;DR: In this paper, nonlinear oblique interactions between tangential discontinuities (T), rotational discontinuity (A), and fast shocks (S/subf/) are investigated with the aim of explaining the origin of slow shocks in the solar wind.
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Switchbacks: statistical properties and deviations from alfv\'enicity
A. Larosa,V. Krasnoselskikh,T. Dudok de Witınst,Oleksiy Agapitov,Clara Froment,V. K. Jagarlamudi,Marco Velli,Stuart D. Bale,A. W. Case,Keith Goetz,Keith P. Harvey,J. C. Kasper,K. E. Korreck,Davin Larson,Robert J. MacDowall,David M. Malaspina,Marc Pulupa,C. Revillet,Michael L. Stevens +18 more
TL;DR: In this article, the magnetic boundaries of switchbacks were analyzed with the minimum variance technique and they were found to be alfv\'{e}nic in 73% of the cases and compressible in 27% of cases.
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Energetic magnetospheric oxygen in the magnetosheath and its response to IMF orientation: Cluster observations
Maria Federica Marcucci,M. B. Bavassano Cattaneo,G. Pallocchia,Ermanno Amata,Roberto Bruno,A. M. Di Lellis,Vittorio Formisano,H. Rème,J. M. Bosqued,Iannis Dandouras,J. A. Sauvaud,L. M. Kistler,Eberhard Moebius,B. Klecker,C. W. Carlson,George K. Parks,Matthew D. McCarthy,A. Korth,Rickard Lundin,André Balogh +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model based on magnetopause crossing by finite gyroradius was proposed to explain the magnetosheath convection with respect to the magnetic field orientation.
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Discontinuities in the solar wind
D. S. Colburn,Charles P. Sonett +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of a field of MHD discontinuities in the solar wind should make possible the generation of ensembles of shocks and contact surfaces, which can be treated as shock wave or contact surface.
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Power spectra and discontinuities of the interplanetary magnetic field - Mariner 4.
TL;DR: Power spectra and fluctuations of interplanetary magnetic field from Mariner 4 data for solar active and quiet days as mentioned in this paper, for both active and non-active solar active days.
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Micro-scale structures in the interplanetary medium
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe and analyze the following micro-scale structures which were found in combined interplanetary magnetic field and plasma data obtained by the deep-space probe Pioneer-6: (1) Several types of simultaneous discontinuities in the magnetic fields and plasma parameters; (2) at least one clear example of a transitional region (D-sheet) associated with a plasma discontinuity; (3) other D-sheets which give evidence of magnetic field annihilation; inhomogeneous isothermal regions in which the square of the magnetic-field intensity is proportional to the
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