Influence of Reflected Ions on the Magnetic Structure of a Collisionless Shock Front
- 17 July 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (3) , 154-157
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.154
Abstract
A special probe has been used to detect ions reflected from a collisionless shock wave propagating perpendicular to the field in a magnetized, low- plasma. Reflected ions are observed only above a critical Alfvén number , and their orbits coincide with the familiar "foot" on the magnetic structure of supercritical shocks. We discuss the origin of the reflected ions.
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