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Shocks and Post-shock Plasma Processes

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Shocks are transition layers in which the flow and thermodynamic properties of the plasma/gas rapidly change.

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Vink, J. (2020). Shocks and Post-shock Plasma Processes. In: Physics and Evolution of Supernova Remnants. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55231-2_4

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