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Selected Problems in Collisionless-Shock Physics

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The physics of collisionless shocks is a very broad topic, which has been well studied for many decades. However, there are a number of important issues which remain unresolved. Moreover, there have been new findings, which cast doubt on well-established ideas. The purpose of this review is to address a subset of unresolved problems in collisionless shock physics from a theoretical and/or numerical modeling point of view. The topics which are addressed are: the nonstationarity of the shock front, the heating and dynamics of electrons through the shock layer, particle diffusion in turbulent electric and magnetic fields, particle acceleration, and the interaction of pickup ions with collisionless shocks.

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    B. Lembege & P. Savoini

  2. Lunar and Planatary Lab., Arizona University, Tucson, U.S.A.

    J. Giacalone

  3. Centre for Interdisciplinary Plasma Science, Max-Planck-Inst. für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany

    M. Scholer

  4. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    T. Hada

  5. Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    M. Hoshino & T. Terasawa

  6. Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement, Orleans, France

    V. Krasnoselskikh

  7. New Hampshire University, Durham, NH, U.S.A

    H. Kucharek

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Lembege, B., Giacalone, J., Scholer, M. et al. Selected Problems in Collisionless-Shock Physics. Space Science Reviews 110, 161–226 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:SPAC.0000023372.12232.b7

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