Part I.- The Shock Problem.- Equations and Models.- Subcritical Shocks.- Quasi-Perpendicular Supercritical Shocks.- Quasi-Parallel Supercritical Shocks.- Particle Acceleration.- Final Remarks.- Part II.- Introduction.- Planetary Bow Shocks.- The Heliospheric Termination Shock.
André Balogh is Emeritus Professor of Space Physics in Imperial
College London and a past Director of the International Space
Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland. He has participated in
numerous scientific space missions since the mid‐1960s and has been
a Principal Investigator on the Ulysses and Cluster missions. His
principal research interest is the observation and study of
magnetic fields in the heliosphere and in planetary environments.
He is author and co‐author of over 450 scientific publications and
editor of seven books on solar system topics.
Rudolf Treumann is retired faculty from the Department of
Geophysics and Environmental Sciences,
Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University Munich. Munich, Germany. He has
published widely on plasma physics and astrophysical topics. He is
an author of a two‐volume textbook on space plasma physics and
coeditor of several books on fundamental physics and astrophysics.
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