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Formation of a steady-state shock front of a long-wavelength fast magnetosonic wave in space plasma with strong Alfvén turbulence

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A study is made of the propagation of a long-wavelength fast magnetosonic wave in a space plasma with a low particle density and high temperature (βe≈βi≈1) in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic field, along which the structures originating from a nonlinear Alfvén wave due to the modulational instability propagate. It is shown that, in the case of an Alfvén wave with certain parameters, a fast magnetosonic wave can be described by the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation. It is pointed out that the fast magnetosonic wave may be in resonance with the structures originating from the Alfvén wave.

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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 29, No. 8, 2003, pp. 734–741.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Zemskov.

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Zemskov, V.R. Formation of a steady-state shock front of a long-wavelength fast magnetosonic wave in space plasma with strong Alfvén turbulence. Plasma Phys. Rep. 29, 675–682 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1601645

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