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Role of ULF Waves in Reforming the Martian Bow Shock

AGU Advances
Understanding the nature of planetary bow shocks is beneficial for advancing our knowledge of solar wind interactions with planets and fundamental plasma physics processes.
Chi Zhang, Chuanfei Dong, Terry Z. Liu, Christian Mazelle, Savvas Raptis, Hongyang Zhou, Jacob Fruchtman, Jasper Halekas, Jing‐Huan Li, Kathleen G. Hanley, Shannon M. Curry, David L. Mitchell, Xinmin Li   +12 more
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Mach Number Scaling of Foreshock Magnetic Fluctuations at Quasi-parallel Bow Shocks and Their Role in Magnetospheric Driving Throughout the Solar System

The Astrophysical Journal
Upstream of quasi-parallel bow shocks, reflected ions generate ion–ion instabilities. The resulting magnetic fluctuations can advect through the shock and interact with planetary magnetospheres.
Brandon L. Burkholder, Li-Jen Chen, Katariina Nykyri, Norberto Romanelli, Menelaos Sarantos, Dave Sibeck, Jaye Verniero, Gina A. DiBraccio, Daniel Gershman, Martin Lindberg, Erin Kincade   +10 more
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Heliocentric Distance and Solar Activity Dependence of Sustained Quasi-radial Interplanetary Magnetic Field Occurrence

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
Planets close to their stars experience an interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) that is dominantly quasi-radial. Our solar system serves as a laboratory to study how the occurrence of quasi-radial IMF varies away from the star and under different stellar ...
Brandon L. Burkholder, Li-Jen Chen, Norberto Romanelli, Dave Sibeck, Jaye Verniero, Gina A. DiBraccio, Daniel Gershman, Menelaos Sarantos   +7 more
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Electron Heating in 2D Particle-in-cell Simulations of Quasi-perpendicular Low-beta Shocks

The Astrophysical Journal
We measure the thermal electron energization in 1D and 2D particle-in-cell simulations of quasi-perpendicular, low-beta ( β _p = 0.25) collisionless ion–electron shocks with mass ratio m _i / m _e = 200, fast Mach number ${{ \mathcal M }}_{\mathrm{ms}}=1$
Aaron Tran, Lorenzo Sironi
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Observations of the spatial and temporal structure of field-aligned beam and gyrating ring distributions at the quasi-perpendicular bow shock with Cluster CIS [PDF]

Annales Geophysicae, 2001
During the early orbit phase, the Cluster spacecraft have repeatedly crossed the perpendicular Earth’s bow shock and provided the first multi-spacecraft measurements. We have analyzed data from the Cluster Ion Spectrometry experiment (CIS), which
E. Möbius, H. Kucharek, C. Mouikis, E. Georgescu, L. M. Kistler, M. A. Popecki, M. Scholer, J. M. Bosqued, H. Rème, C. W. Carlson, B. Klecker, A. Korth, G. K. Parks, J. C. Sauvaud, H. Balsiger, M.-B. Bavassano-Cattaneo, I. Dandouras, A. M. DiLellis, L. Eliasson, V. Formisano, T. Horbury, W. Lennartsson, R. Lundin, M. McCarthy, J. P. McFadden, G. Paschmann   +25 more
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A Simulation Study of an HFA-like Event at Mars

The Astrophysical Journal
Hot flow anomalies (HFAs) are transient structures at planetary bow shocks characterized by hot, tenuous plasma. At Mars, where no global dipole field exists, such events interact with the induced magnetosphere in a unique and poorly understood way. This
Maodong Yan, Jiuhou Lei, Ziyi Yang, Binzheng Zhang, Tong Dang   +4 more
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Spatial distribution of upstream magnetospheric ≥50 keV ions [PDF]

Annales Geophysicae, 2000
We present for the first time a statistical study of \geq50 keV ion events of a magnetospheric origin upstream from Earth's bow shock. The statistical analysis of the 50-220 keV ion events observed by the IMP-8 spacecraft shows: (1) a dawn-dusk ...
G. C. Anagnostopoulos, G. C. Anagnostopoulos, G. Argyropoulos, G. Argyropoulos, G. Kaliabetsos, G. Kaliabetsos   +5 more
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Energy Dissipation in Strong Collisionless Shocks: The Crucial Role of Ion-to-electron Scale Separation in Particle-in-cell Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Energy dissipation in collisionless shocks is a key mechanism in various astrophysical environments. Its nonlinear nature complicates analytical understanding and necessitates particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. This study examines the impact of reducing
Mohamad Shalaby
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Interplanetary Magnetic Field Effect on the Location of the Martian Bow Shock: MAVEN Observations

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The Martian bow shock (BS) is generated with the mass-loading and magnetic pileup processes when the solar wind interacts with the Martian ionosphere. In this vein, the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) frozen in the solar wind can affect the location ...
H. Y. Sui, M. Wang, J. Y. Lu, Y. Zhou, J. Wang   +4 more
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Cluster magnetic field observations at a quasi-parallel bow shock [PDF]

Annales Geophysicae, 2002
We present four-point Cluster magnetic field data from a quasi-parallel shock crossing which allows us to probe the three-dimensional structure of this type of shock for the first time. We find that steepened ULF waves typically have a scale larger
E. A. Lucek, E. A. Lucek, T. S. Horbury, M. W. Dunlop, P. J. Cargill, S. J. Schwartz, A. Balogh, P. Brown, C. Carr, K.-H. Fornacon, E. Georgescu, E. Georgescu   +11 more
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