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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Johlander, A
• Schwartz, S J
• Vaivads, A
• Khotyaintsev, Yu V
• Gingell, I
• Peng, I B
• Markidis, S
• Lindqvist, P-A
• Ergun, R E
• Marklund, G T
• Plaschke, F
• Magnes, W
• Strangeway, R J
• Russell, C T
• Wei, H
• Torbert, R B
• Paterson, W R
• Gershman, D J
• Dorelli, J C
• Avanov, L A
• Lavraud, B
• Saito, Y
• Giles, B L
• Pollock, C J
• Burch, J L

Titel

Rippled Quasiperpendicular Shock Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2016-10, Vol.117 (16), p.165101-165101, Article 165101

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

APS_美国物理学会期刊

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Collisionless shock nonstationarity arising from microscale physics influences shock structure and particle acceleration mechanisms. Nonstationarity has been difficult to quantify due to the small spatial and temporal scales. We use the closely spaced (subgyroscale), high-time-resolution measurements from one rapid crossing of Earth's quasiperpendicular bow shock by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft to compare competing nonstationarity processes. Using MMS's high-cadence kinetic plasma measurements, we show that the shock exhibits nonstationarity in the form of ripples.