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Pesses 1981
Pesses, M.E. (1981). On the conservation of the first adiabatic invariant in perpendicular shocks. Journal of Geophysical Research 86. doi: 10.1029/JA086iA01p00150. issn: 0148-0227.

Numerical simulations show that preshock and postshock values of the first adiabatic invariant (magnetic moment) are, on the average, equal for particles transmitted by infinitesimally thin perpendicular magnetosonic fast-mode shock waves. These results are apparently not explainable by adiabatic theory but are accounted for by the conservation of angular momentum.

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