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Behlke, R., André, M., Bale, S.D., Pickett, J.S., Cattell, C.A., Lucek, E.A. and Balogh, A. (2004). Solitary structures associated with short large-amplitude magnetic structures (SLAMS) upstream of the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock. Geophysical Research Letters 31: doi: 10.1029/2004GL019524. issn: 0094-8276. |
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For the first time, solitary waves (SWs) have been observed within short large-amplitude magnetic structures (SLAMS) upstream of the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock. The SWs often occur as bipolar pulses in the electric field data and move parallel to the background magnetic field at velocities of v = 400--1200 km/s. They have peak-to-peak amplitudes in the parallel electric field of up to E'$parallel$ = 65 mV/m and parallel scale sizes of L$parallel$ ~ 10 λD. The bipolar solitary waves exhibit negative potential structures of ∣Φ$parallel$∣ = 0.4--2.2 V, i.e., eΦ$parallel$/kTe ~ 0.1. None of the theories commonly used to describe SWs adequately address these negative potential structures moving at velocities above the ion thermal speed in a weakly magnetized plasma. |
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Keywords
Space Plasma Physics, Nonlinear phenomena, Space Plasma Physics, Shock waves, Space Plasma Physics, Waves and instabilities |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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