Nonadiabatic ELectron Heating at High-Mach-Number Perpendicular Shocks
- 10 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (10) , 1059-1062
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.1059
Abstract
Fully kinetic simulations of high-Mach-number perpendicular shocks demonstrate that electron acceleration in the cross-shock electric field can produce downstream electron temperatures significantly higher than that expected for adiabatic compression.Keywords
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