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2002). g. Jia et al. 2012). On the other hand, kinetic simulations are appropriate when changes occur on gyroscales and the retention of single-particle dynamics is necessary. g. Leroy et al. 1981). Two commonly used techniques are Particle-in-cell (PIC) and Hybrid. In PIC simulations, both ions and electrons are represented as finite phase-space volumes in their respective distribution functions (Winske and Omidi 1996). The evolution, of the macroparticles’ positions and velocities at each time step, is progressed using field information from the grid; the new particle information then modifies the field.
4 Quasi-Parallel Shocks A quasi-parallel shock is defined as having an angle hBn < 45°. 10 illustrates in situ magnetic field signatures for a typical crossing of a quasi-parallel shock for hBn = 21°. In contrast to a quasi-perpendicular shock, the crossing is characterized by a transition layer extending from a foreshock region far upstream, excited by wave-particle interactions, to the downstream region (Schwartz and Burgess 1991). The foreshock is the region upstream of a shock wave filled with backstreaming particles and is thus detected where the spacecraft is magnetically connected to the shock.
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