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Discontinuities in an anisotropic plasma and their identification in the solar wind

P.D. Hudson
- 01 Nov 1970 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 11, pp 1611-1622
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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.
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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).

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Magnetic reconnection at the Earth´s magnetopause: CLUSTER spacecraft observations at different scales

TL;DR: Magnetic reconnection at the Earth´s magnetopause: CLUSTER spacecraft observations at different scales as discussed by the authors, where magnetic reconnection occurs at the magnetic field of the Earth.
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Повевхное магнитосферное течение С силяными разрывами

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of the lack of a sufficient number of translational data points in the context of a large-scale data collection system.
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Magnetopause Thickness at the Dawn and Dusk Flanks

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how the magnetic field rotation across the magnetopause influences the fine structure of the layer and its thickness and found that intrinsic physical properties of the Chapman-Ferraro layer may play a role in creating a dawn-dusk asymmetry in the thickness.
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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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Non-Linear Wave Propagation

Alan Jeffrey, +1 more
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Discontinuities in the solar wind

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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