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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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Comparison of Quality Measures for Walén Relation
Detection of oppositely directed reconnection jets in a solar wind current sheet
TL;DR: The first two-spacecraft (Wind and ACE) detection of oppositely directed plasma jets within a bifurcated current sheet in the solar wind was reported in this paper.
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Some features of the interplanetary shock wave interactions connected with the thermal anisotropy and 3D flow past the Earth’s bow shock
S. A. Grib,E.A. Pushkar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an effect of pressure anisotropy on the variation in the plasma and magnetic field parameters across the front of a moving fast shock wave is examined and the results are compared against experimental data.
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Detection of small‐scale folds at a solar wind reconnection exhaust
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present multipoint Cluster observations of a reconnection exhaust and the associated current sheet at ACE and Wind, enabling it to be studied on multiple length scales and at high time resolution.
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Effects in the Near‐Magnetopause Magnetosheath Elicited by Large‐Amplitude Alfvénic Fluctuations Terminating in a Field and Flow Discontinuity
Charlie J. Farrugia,Ian J. Cohen,Bernard J. Vasquez,Noé Lugaz,L. Alm,Roy B. Torbert,Matthew R. Argall,Kristoff Paulson,B. Lavraud,D. J. Gershman,Fausto T. Gratton,Hiroshi Matsui,A. J. Rogers,Terry G. Forbes,D. Payne,Robert E. Ergun,Barry Mauk,James L. Burch,Christopher T. Russell,Robert J. Strangeway,J. R. Shuster,Rumi Nakamura,S. A. Fuselier,S. A. Fuselier,Barbara L. Giles,Yuri V. Khotyaintsev,Per-Arne Lindqvist,Göran Marklund,S. M. Petrinec,C. J. Pollock +29 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a sequence of large-amplitude Alfvenic fluctuations terminating in a field and flow discontinuity and their effects on electromagnetic fields and plasmas in the near-magnitude was reported.
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Electrodynamics of continuous media
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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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