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The resolved layer of a collisionless, high beta, supercritical, quasi-perpendicular shock wave. I - Rankine-Hugoniot geometry, currents, and stationarityData collected by the ISEE dual-spacecraft mission (on November 7, 1977) on a slowly moving, supercritical, high-beta, quasi-perpendicular bow shock are presented, and the local geometry, spatial scales, and stationarity of this shock wave are assessed in a self-consistent Rankine-Hugoniot-constrained frame of reference. Included are spatial profiles of the ac and dc magnetic and electric fields, electron and proton fluid velocities, current densities, electron and proton number densities, temperatures, pressures, and partial densities of the reflected protons. The observed layer profile is shown to be nearly phase standing and one-dimensional in a Rankine-Hugoniot frame, empirically determined by the magnetofluid parameters outside the layer proper.
Document ID
19870032770
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Scudder, J. D.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Aggson, T. L.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Mangeney, A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Lacombe, C.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Harvey, C. C.
(Paris Observatoire, Meudon, France)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1986
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 91
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
87A20044
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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