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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2009

Cluster investigations on the reformation of perpendicular Earths bow shock

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Among several mechanisms issued from simulation and theoretical studies proposed to account for the nonstationarity of quasi-perpendicular supercritical shocks, one process - the so-called self-reformation - driven by the accumulation of reflected ions at a foot distance from the ramp has been intensively analyzed with simulations. Present results based on experimental CLUSTER mission clearly evidence signatures of this self-reformation process for the terrestrial bow shock. The study based on magnetic field measurements includes two parts: (i) a detailed analysis of two typical shock crossings for almost perpendicular shock directions where the risk of pollution by other nonstationarity mechanisms is minimal. A special attention is drawn on appropriate treatment of data to avoid wrong interpretation. One key result is that the ramp width can reach a very narrow value covering a few electron inertial lengths only; (ii) a statistical analysis based evidences the signatures of this nonstationarity versus different plasma conditions and shock regimes. Present results are compared with previous theoretical and simulation works.
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hal-00782926 , version 1 (30-01-2013)

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C. Mazelle, Bertrand Lembège, A. Morgenthaler, K. Meziane, Jean-Louis Rauch, et al.. Cluster investigations on the reformation of perpendicular Earths bow shock. 17th CLUSTER International Workshop, May 2009, Uppsala, Sweden. ⟨hal-00782926⟩
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