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@article{Schwartz:2022:10.1002/essoar.10511310.2,
author = {Schwartz, SJ and Goodrich, KA and III, LBW and Turner, DL and Trattner, K and Kucharek, H and Gingell, I and Fuselier, SA and Cohen, IJ and Madanian, H and Ergun, RE and Gershman, DJ and Strangeway, RJ},
doi = {10.1002/essoar.10511310.2},
title = {Energy partition at collisionless supercritical quasiperpendicular shocks},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10511310.2},
year = {2022}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - <jats:p>Collisionless shocks in astrophysical plasmas are importantthermalizers, converting some of the incident flow energy into thermalenergy, and non-thermalizers, partitioning that energy in unequal waysto different particle species, sub-populations thereof, and fieldcomponents. This partition problem, or equivalently the shock equationof state, lies at the heart of shock physics. Here we employsystematically a framework to capture all the incident and downstreamenergy fluxes at two example traversals of the Earth's bow shock by theMagnetospheric Multiscale Mission. Here and traditionally such data hasto be augmented by information from other spacecraft, e.g., to providemore accurate measurements of the cold solar wind beam. With some careand fortuitous choices, the energy fluxes are constant, includinginstantaneous measurements through the shock layer. The dominantincident proton ram energy is converted primarily into downstream protonenthalpy flux, the majority of which is actually carried by a smallfraction of suprathermal protons. Fluctuations include both real andinstrumental effects. Separating these, resolving the solar wind beam,and other considerations point the way to a dedicated mission to solvethis energy partition problem across a full range of plasma and shockconditions.</jats:p>
AU - Schwartz,SJ
AU - Goodrich,KA
AU - III,LBW
AU - Turner,DL
AU - Trattner,K
AU - Kucharek,H
AU - Gingell,I
AU - Fuselier,SA
AU - Cohen,IJ
AU - Madanian,H
AU - Ergun,RE
AU - Gershman,DJ
AU - Strangeway,RJ
DO - 10.1002/essoar.10511310.2
PY - 2022///
TI - Energy partition at collisionless supercritical quasiperpendicular shocks
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10511310.2
UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10511310.2
ER -