Although collisionless shocks primarily exist to mediate the flow of supermagnetosonic
plasma, they also act as sites for particle acceleration. It is now well known that for certain …

Shock waves are an important feature of solar system plasmas, from the solar corona out to
the edge of the heliosphere. This engaging introduction to collisionless shocks in space …

The Earth's magnetosphere and its bow shock, which is formed by the interaction of the
supersonic solar wind with the terrestrial magnetic field, constitute a rich natural laboratory …

Magnetic reconnection plays a key role in the circulation of plasma through the Earth's
magnetosphere. As such, the Earth's magnetotail is an excellent natural laboratory for the …

We present a comprehensive statistical analysis spanning over a solar cycle of the
properties and drivers of traveling fast forward and fast reverse interplanetary shocks. We …

Identifying collisionless shock crossings in data sent from spacecraft has so far been done
manually or using basic algorithms. It is a tedious job that shock physicists have to go …

We report evidence for reconnection between colliding reconnection jets in a compressed
current sheet at the center of a magnetic flux rope at Earth's magnetopause. The …

Abstract New Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observations of small‐scale (~ 7 ion inertial
length radius) flux transfer events (FTEs) at the dayside magnetopause are reported. The 10 …

Using multipoint in situ observations upstream of Earth's bow shock from the THEMIS
mission, we present the first observations of foreshock bubbles (FBs) and compare them to …

In the two decades prior to the launch of Cluster, collisionless shocks at which the magnetic
field in the unshocked plasma is nearly perpendicular to the shock normal ('quasi …