The Effect of Fast Solar Wind on Ion Distribution Downstream of Earth’s Bow Shock
The solar wind gets thermalized and compressed when crossing a planetary bow shock, forming the magnetosheath. The angle between the upstream magnetic field and the shock normal vector separates the quasi-parallel from the quasi-perpendicular magnetosheath, significantly influencing the physical con...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2ddf |