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The Earth’s Bow Shock Fine Structure

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Correlated Interplanetary and Magnetospheric Observations

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 42))

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This paper summarizes our knowledge of the Earth’s bow shock fine structure. Review papers (Sagdeev, 1967; Paul, 1968, and Friedman et al., 1971) and books (Tidman and Krall, 1971) on collisionless shocks in plasmas, which have appeared so far, deal especially with laboratory produced collisionless shocks and theories to describe the corresponding observations, but only marginally with the Earth’s bow shock. This is probably due to the great complexity of the bow shock structure (see Figure 1), the intermixing of the many different phenomena occurring there and the difficulties of observation. Furthermore, although the available literature on bow shock observations is now very extensive, systematic investigations were not possible until recently since in general the different parameters observed were rather uncorrected. On many occasions for example magnetic field data on the bow shock crossings were reported without a corresponding knowledge of the plasma data and vice versa. In such cases unambiguous checking of the measurements against theories of collisionless shocks in plasmas was clearly practically impossible.

Sketch in the ecliptic plane of the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. The magnetopause and the bow shock are indicated together with the region where the particles reflected at the bow shock interact with the incoming plasma generating four kinds of wave phenomena (see Section 3).

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Formisano, V. (1974). The Earth’s Bow Shock Fine Structure. In: Page, D.E. (eds) Correlated Interplanetary and Magnetospheric Observations. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2172-2_12

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