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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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Evidence for magnetic field reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause
Bengt U. Ö. Sonnerup,Götz Paschmann,I. Papamastorakis,N. Sckopke,Gerhard Haerendel,S. J. Bame,J. R. Asbridge,J. T. Gosling,Christopher T. Russell +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, 11 passes of the ISEE satellites through the frontside terrestrial magnetopause were identified, where the plasma velocity in the magnetic field and boundary layer was substantially larger than in the magnetosheath, with a view to determining whether the velocity enhancements can be explained by magnetic field reconnection.
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Plasma acceleration at the earth's magnetopause - Evidence for reconnection
Götz Paschmann,I. Papamastorakis,N. Sckopke,Gerhard Haerendel,B. U. Oe. Sonnerup,S. J. Bame,J. R. Asbridge,J. T. Gosling,C. T. Russel,R. C. Elphic +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, high-speed plasma at the magnetopause in agreement with theoretical predictions of magnetic field reconnection is reported, and the observations agree with the predictions of the reconnection model of the dayside magnetopsause, in which the magnetic field is described as a rotational discontinuity, or a large-amplitude Alfven wave.
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The magnetopause for large magnetic shear: AMPTE/IRM observations
G. Paschmann,I. Papamastorakis,Wolfgang Baumjohann,N. Sckopke,C. W. Carlson,Bengt U. Ö. Sonnerup,H. Lühr +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the improved accuracy and time resolution of the IRM plasma measurements to reexamine the occurrence of high-speed flows as signatures of the reconnection process at the magnetopause.
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A magnetic reconnection X-line extending more than 390 Earth radii in the solar wind
Tai Phan,J. T. Gosling,M. S. Davis,Ruth M. Skoug,Marit Øieroset,Robert P. Lin,R. P. Lepping,David J. McComas,Charles W. Smith,H. Rème,André Balogh +10 more
TL;DR: Three-spacecraft observations of accelerated flow associated with reconnection in a current sheet embedded in the solar wind flow imply that reconnection is fundamentally a large-scale process and reveal, surprisingly, that reconnections can operate in a quasi-steady-state manner even when undriven by the external flow.
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Evidence for Inhomogeneous Heating in the Solar Wind
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to probe the nature of turbulence heating and found that significant inhomogeneous heating occurs in the solar wind, connected with current sheets that are dynamically generated by MHD turbulence.
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Discontinuities in an anisotropic plasma.
TL;DR: In this paper, the Chew-Goldberger-Low theory is used to investigate discontinuities in an anisotropic plasma and the average ion magnetic moment is conserved.
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Ion Sound Instability in a Collisionless Shock Wave
Nicholas A. Krall,David L. Book +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the nonlinear development of an ion sound instability is calculated for a case in which a diamagnetic current of electrons propagates across a magnetic field, and in which ion gyration in the magnetic field can be neglected.
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First-order orbit theory of the rotational discontinuity.
Shin‐Yi Su,B. U. Ö. Sonnerup +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the propagation properties and internal equilibrium structure of a large-amplitude Alfven wave which conserves the magnitude of the magnetic field component tangential to the wave front but changes its direction is made.
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One-dimensional magnetogasdynamics in oblique fields
TL;DR: In this article, the dynamics of a perfectly conductive gas in situations where all variables depend on one space co-ordinate only is extended to the case where the magnetic field has a component in the direction of variation.
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Simultaneous plasma and magnetic-field measurements of probable tangential discontinuities in the solar wind
TL;DR: Plasma and magnetic field measurements of tangential discontinuities in solar wind by Pioneer 6, considering velocity shears and rotation of sun were carried out by the Pioneer 6 as mentioned in this paper.
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