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Matsukiyo & Scholer 2006
Matsukiyo, S. and Scholer, M. (2006). On microinstabilities in the foot of high Mach number perpendicular shocks. Journal of Geophysical Research 111. doi: 10.1029/2005JA011409. issn: 0148-0227.

Microinstabilities excited in the foot of a supercritical perpendicular shock wave are investigated. A two-dimensional full particle simulation with periodic boundary conditions in both directions using the physical ion to electron mass ratio is performed as a proxy for the foot region where incoming and specularly reflected ions overlap. The simulation shows that six types of different instabilities are excited in a time period shorter than ion gyroperiod of the reflected ions. The most dominant instability is the modified two-stream instability, which leads to strong parallel electron heating through a so-called two step instability and to ion phase space holes.

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Keywords
Space Plasma Physics, Shock waves, Space Plasma Physics, Wave/particle interactions (2483, 6984), Space Plasma Physics, Wave/wave interactions, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Energetic particles, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Transition region
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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