Pickup Ion Acceleration at Low- βₚ Perpendicular Shocks
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Lipatov, A. S., and G. P. Zank. “Pickup Ion Acceleration at Low-βₚ Perpendicular Shocks.” Physical Review Letters 82, no. 18 (May 3, 1999): 3609–12. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3609.
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©1999 American Physical Society
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Multiscale hybrid kinetic simulations of low- βₚ supercritical shocks demonstrate that pickup ions may be strongly accelerated by shock surfing, also known as multiply reflected ion acceleration.