Articles | Volume 33, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-1011-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-1011-2015
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18 Aug 2015
Regular paper |  | 18 Aug 2015

Profile of a low-Mach-number shock in two-fluid plasma theory

M. Gedalin, Y. Kushinsky, and M. Balikhin

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The magnetic profile of a laminar collisionless shock is described within two-fluid plasma theory. This description is valid only for the upstream part of the shock, before the ions begin to gyrate strongly. The emerging structure is fairly universal in a wide range of shock angles and mainly depends on the ratio of the dissipative to the dispersive length.