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  1. Department of Physics and Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    S. D. Bale

  2. Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    M. A. Balikhin & S. N. Walker

  3. Space and Atmospheric Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK

    T. S. Horbury, A. Balogh & E. A. Lucek

  4. LPCE/CNRS, Orléans, France

    V. V. Krasnoselskikh

  5. Space Science Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

    H. Kucharek & E. Möbius

  6. Also Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA

    E. Möbius

  7. Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    D. Burgess & S. J. Schwartz7 10

  8. CETP/IPSL, Velizy, France

    B. Lembège

  9. Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany

    M. Scholer

  10. Now at Space and Atmospheric Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK

    S. J. Schwartz7 10

  11. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    M. F. Thomsen

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Bale, S.D., Balikhin, M.A., Horbury, T.S. et al. Quasi-perpendicular Shock Structure and Processes. Space Sci Rev 118, 161–203 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-005-3827-0

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