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Yin et al. 2004
Yin, L., Winske, D., Daughton, W. and Coroniti, F.V. (2004). Electron quasi-viscous effects in collisionless slow-mode shocks. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL019567. issn: 0094-8276.

The dynamics of collisionless slow-mode shocks are examined using one-dimensional full particle (kinetic ions and electrons) and hybrid (kinetic ions, massless fluid electrons) simulations. Full particle simulations indicate that the downstream electron temperature becomes anisotropic (T$parallel$e > T$perp$e) at very oblique angles. The anisotropy results from both the large mirror effects and the electron heating due to the parallel electric field of very obliquely propagating kinetic Alfv¿n waves; it gives rise to finite off-diagonal electron pressure tensor terms in the simulation frame. Inclusion of these electron quasi-viscous effects in hybrid simulations allows slow shocks to be set up at very oblique angles, as observed in the distant tail, where dissipation from ion-ion streaming becomes much weaker.

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Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail boundary layers, Magnetospheric Physics, Numerical modeling, Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma sheet
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Geophysical Research Letters
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