Pickup Ion Acceleration at Low-Perpendicular Shocks
- 3 May 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 82 (18) , 3609-3612
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.82.3609
Abstract
Multiscale hybrid kinetic simulations of low- supercritical shocks demonstrate that pickup ions may be strongly accelerated by shock surfing, also known as multiply reflected ion acceleration.
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