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The bowshock and magnetopause
Author(s) -
Elphic R. C.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg025i003p00510
Subject(s) - magnetopause , physics , explosive material , spacecraft , magnetosheath , bow shock (aerodynamics) , solar wind , geophysics , shock (circulatory) , space physics , shock wave , magnetosphere , astronomy , plasma , mechanics , history , medicine , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The explosive growth of magnetopause and bowshock research reported by Russell and Greenstadt [1983] has continued unabated through the 1983 to 1986 quadrennium. Shock research has gone far beyond the tentative exploratory work seen in the last two quadrennia: a sizable volume of collisionless shock parameter space has been explored both in careful data analysis and in theory and sophisticated simulations. Research on the magnetopause has progressed somewhat more slowly than shock research, but new results and exciting ideas concerning reconnection and energy transfer through the magnetopause have not been lacking in the past four years. Much of this shock and magnetopause research has been due, directly or indirectly, to knowledge gained from the multi‐spacecraft ISEE mission. Exciting results from AMPTE and the recent comet missions have opened whole new areas of shock research.