Confirmation of quasi-perpendicular shock reformation in two-dimensional hybrid simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Yuan, Xingqiu ^a,b   Cairns, Iver H ^a   Trichtchenko, Larisa ^b   Rankin, Robert ^c   Danskin, Donald W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1-D SIMULATION; COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS; ENERGY DISSIPATION MECHANISM; HYBRID SIMULATION; ION CYCLOTRONS; ION PLASMAS; LARGE AMPLITUDE; OBLIQUE WAVE; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PIC SIMULATION; QUASI-PERPENDICULAR SHOCKS; QUASI-STATIONARY; SHOCK REFORMATION; TIME-SCALE; WHISTLER WAVES; ZERO-PHASE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; IONS; MACH NUMBER; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS; PLASMAS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPACECRAFT;

REFORMING REACTIONS;

AMPLITUDE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ION; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONLINEARITY; PLASMA; SPACECRAFT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACHYCEPHALIDAE;

EID: 65649144203     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036675     Document Type: Article

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