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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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Reinterpretation of the Pioneer 6 bow shock crossing
F. Mariani,N. F. Ness,J. K. Chao +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine and reinterpret the interesting bow shock crossing of Pioneer 6 on December 16, 1965, by combining the high-resolution data for the magnetic field measurements with all the available plasma data.
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The Solar Wind
Alexis P. Rouillard,Nicholeen M. Viall,Viviane Pierrard,Christian Vocks,Lorenzo Matteini,O. Alexandrova,A. K. Higginson,Benoit Lavraud,Michael Lavarra,Yihong Wu,Rui F. Pinto,Alessandro Bemporad,Eduardo Sanchez-Diaz +12 more
TL;DR: The solar corona produces a continuous outflow of plasma influencing the entire solar system and beyond to over a hundred of astronomical units and due to the Sun's proximity the source regions of that wind can be observed remotely with great precision and the escaping plasma can be measured directly in situ as mentioned in this paper.
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Observation of a slow-mode shock in the dayside magnetopause reconnection layer
TL;DR: In this article, the International Sun Earth Explorer (ISEE) 2 spacecraft recorded on 29 Oct 1979 provide evidence for a slow shock (SS) in the reconnection layer of the dayside magnetopause.
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The structure of the magnetic reconnection exhaust boundary
TL;DR: In this article, the structure of shocks that form at the exhaust boundaries during collisionless reconnection of anti-parallel fields is studied using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations and modeling based on the anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic equations.
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Electrodynamics of continuous media
TL;DR: In this article, the propagation of electromagnetic waves and X-ray diffraction of X rays in crystals are discussed. But they do not consider the effects of superconductivity on superconducting conductors.
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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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