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Density jump for oblique collisionless shocks in pair plasmas: allowed solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2022

Antoine Bret Open the ORCID record for Antoine Bret [Opens in a new window]  and
Ramesh Narayan
Antoine Bret*
Affiliation:
ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain Instituto de Investigaciones Energéticas y Aplicaciones Industriales, Campus Universitario de Ciudad Real, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Ramesh Narayan
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics – Harvard and Smithsonian, Harvard University, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: antoineclaude.bret@uclm.es
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Abstract

Shock waves in plasma are usually dealt with using magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Yet, MHD entails the assumption of a short mean free path, which is not fulfilled in a collisionless plasma. Recently, for pair plasmas, we devised a model allowing one to account for kinetic effects within a MHD-like formalism. Its relies on an estimate of the anisotropy generated when crossing the front, with a subsequent assessment of the stability of this anisotropy in the downstream. We solved our model for parallel, perpendicular and switch-on shocks. Here we bridge between all these cases by treating the problem of an arbitrarily, but coplanar, oriented magnetic field. Even though the formalism presented is valid for anisotropic upstream temperatures, only the case of a cold upstream is solved. We find extra solutions which are not part of the MHD catalogue, and a density jump that is notably less in the quasi-parallel, highly magnetized, regime. Given the complexity of the calculations, this work is mainly devoted to the presentation of the mathematical aspect of our model. A forthcoming article will be devoted to the physics of the shocks here defined.

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astrophysical plasmasplasma nonlinear phenomenaspace plasma physics
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 88 , Issue 6 , December 2022 , 905880615
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