Properties of fast magnetosonic shocklets at the bow shock

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Stasiewicz, K ^a   Longmore, M ^a   Buchert, S ^a   Shukla, P K ^b   Lavraud, B ^c   Pickett, J ^d  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c IRAP   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; ION BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS; TURBULENCE;

ION ACOUSTIC TURBULENCE; MAGNETOSONIC SHOCKLETS;

GEOPHYSICS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 1642617790     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017971     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Akimoto, K., D. Winske, T. Onsager, M. Thomsen, and S. Gary, Steepening of paralell propagating hydromagnetic waves into magnetic pulsations, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 17,599, 1991.
2. Balogh, A., et al., The Cluster magnetic field investigation, Ann. Geophysicae, 19(10-12), 1207, 2001.
3. Gurnett, D. A., et al., First results from the Cluster wideband plasma wave investigation, Ann. Geophysicae, 19(10-12), 1259-1271, 2001.
4. Gustafsson, G., et al., The electric field and wave experiment for the Cluster mission, Space Sci. Rev., 79, 137-156, 1997.
5. Hada, T., C. F. Kennel, and T. Terasawa, Excitation of compressional waves and formation of shocklets in the Earth's forcshock, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 4423, 1987.
6. Kakutani, T., T. Kawahara, and T. Taniuti, Nonlinear hydromagnetic solitary waves in a collision-free plasma with isothermal electron pressure, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn, 23(5), 1138, 1967.
7. Karpman, V. I., Non-linear Waves in Dispersive Media, Pergamon Press, 1975.
8. Mann, G., H. Luhr, and W. Baumhohann, Statistical analysis of SLAMS in the vicinity of the quasi-parallel bow shock, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 13,315, 1994.
9. McKenzie, J. F., and T. B. Doyle, The properties of fast and slow obtique solitons in a magnetized plasma, Phys. of Plasmas, 9(1), 55, 2002.
10. Omidi, N., and D. Winske, Steepening of kinetic magnetosonic waves into shocklets, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 2281, 1990.
11. Rème, H., et al., First multispacecraft ion measurements in and near the Earth's magnetosphere, Ann. Geophysicae, 19(10-12), 1303, 2001.
12. Sagdeev, R. Z., and G. M. Zaslavskii, Regular and chaotic dynamics of particles in a magnetic field, in Nonlinear phenomena in plasma physics and hydrodynamics, edited by R. Z. Sagdeev, pp. 65-92, Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1986.
13. Schwartz, S. J., D. Burgess, W. P. Wilkinson, R. L. Kessel, M. Dunlop, and H. Lühr, Observations of short large-amplitude magnetic structures at a quasi-parallel shock, J. Geophys. Res., 97(A4), 4209, 1992.
14. Stasiewicz, K., P. K. Shukla, G. Gustafsson, S. Buchert, B. Lavraud, B. Thide, and Z. Klos, Slow magnetosonic solitons detected by the Cluster spacecraft, Phys. Rev. Lett., 90(8), 085, 002, doi:10.1103/hysRevLett. 90.085002, 2003.
15. Thomsen, M. F., J. T. Gosling, S. J. Bame, and C. T. Russell, Magnetic pulsations and the quasi-parallel shock, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 957, 1990.
16. Tidman, D. A., and N. A. Krall, Shock waves in Collisionless Plasmas, 49-53, pp., Wiley Interscience, 1971.