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The interaction of ultra-low-frequency pc3-5 waves with charged particles in Earth's magnetosphere

Zong, Qiugang; Rankin, Robert; Zhou, Xuzhi

One of the most important issues in space physics is to identify the dominant processes that transfer energy from the solar wind to energetic particle populations in Earth's inner magnetosphere. Ultra-low-frequency (ULF) waves are an important consideration as they propagate electromagnetic energy over vast distances with little dissipation and in…

Shocks in collisionless plasmas

Liu, Y.; Parks, G. K.; Fu, S. Y. +3 more

The Earth's bow shock is the best-known collisionless shock in space. Although much is known about the bow shock, the mechanisms of heating and thermalization processes still remain poorly understood. Collisionless shocks are different from ordinary fluid shocks, because a fraction of the incident solar wind is reflected from the bow shock and the…