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A series of experiments at the Institute for Plasma Research helped provide the first experimental evidence of the existence of precursor solitons ahead of a charged body traveling in a plasma with a supersonic speed. The experiments were done in a dusty plasma with the dust made to flow over an electrostatic potential barrier acting as a charged object. The experiments not only provided a detailed characterization of these nonlinear structures but also detected another class of driven solitons called pinned solitons. In this Special Topics review article we provide a consolidated account of these experimental findings and also the associated theoretical work that was carried out in their support.
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A.S. acknowledges AOARD for their research grant FA2386-18-1-4022 and is grateful to the Indian National Science Academy for the Honorary Scientist position.
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Bandyopadhyay, P., Sen, A. Driven nonlinear structures in flowing dusty plasmas. Rev. Mod. Plasma Phys. 6, 28 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41614-022-00091-3
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