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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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Ion acceleration dependence on magnetic shear angle in dayside magnetopause reconnection
Sarah K. Vines,Sarah K. Vines,S. A. Fuselier,S. A. Fuselier,K. J. Trattner,S. M. Petrinec,James Drake +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the difference between the incident and reflected ion velocities (vsep) in the magnetosheath boundary layer (MSBL) ion populations to determine the exhaust velocity.
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Modified two‐stream instability at perpendicular collisionless shocks: Full particle simulations
TL;DR: In this paper, a full particle simulation study is carried out for studying microinstabilities generated in self-consistently excited perpendicular collisionless shocks, and it is shown that the modified two-stream instability can be generated by the interaction of incoming and reflected ions with electromagnetic whistler mode waves propagating in the direction quasi-perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field.
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Entropy generation at multi-fluid magnetohydrodynamic shocks with emphasis to the solar wind termination shock
Hans-Jörg Fahr,M. Siewert +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of expressions for ion and electron velocity distribution functions and their velocity moments at the passage over the solar wind termination shock were developed, with the introduction of appropriate particle invariants and the use of Liouville's theorem.
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The Formation of Rotational Discontinuities in Compressive Three-dimensional MHD Turbulence
Liping Yang,Liping Yang,Lei Zhang,Jiansen He,Chuanyi Tu,Linghua Wang,Eckart Marsch,Xin Wang,Shaohua Zhang,Xueshang Feng +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the rotational discontinuities (RDs) are formed in MHD turbulence with an imposed uniform background magnetic field and mass density, and the identified RDs evolve from the steepening of the Alfven wave with moderate amplitude.
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Flow shear across solar wind discontinuities: WIND observations
J. De Keyser,M. Roth,A. Söding +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the tangential magnetic field and velocity shears across directional discontinuities (DDs) with significant change in magnetic field intensity observed by WIND in slow and fast solar wind streams.
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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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