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Electron Bulk Acceleration and Thermalization at Earth's Quasiperpendicular Bow Shock
2018
Physical Review Letters
Electron heating at the Earth's quasi-perpendicular bow shock has been surmised to be due to the combined effects of a quasi-static electric potential and scattering through wave-particle interaction. Here we report the observation of electron distribution functions indicating a new electron heating process occurring at the leading edge of the shock front. Incident solar wind electrons are accelerated parallel to the magnetic field toward downstream, reaching an electron-ion relative drift
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.120.225101
pmid:29906189
fatcat:fbrsy3q55rdcfmc7zx666hvsim