Collisionless shocks

selected talks and papers

• "Shocks in space: Perspectives and unsolved problems", Graz 2005.
• "Shock structure and ion dynamics", 8th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, Hawaii, 1-7 May 2009.
• "Heliospheric and astrophysical shocks: Common features and differences", COSPAR, Bremen, 18-25 July 2010.
• "Two-dimensional hybrid models of ion dynamics in collisionless quasi-perpendicular shocks", Fall AGU Meeting, December 2-7, 2012, San Francisco.
• Balikhin M., Gedalin M. , Petrukovich A., New mechanism for electron heating in shocks, Phys. Rev. Lett., 70, 1259-1262, 1993.

• Gedalin M., Ion reflection at the shock front revisited, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 4871, 1996.

• Gedalin M., Noncoplanar magnetic field in the collisionless shock front, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 11,153-11,156, 1996.

• Gedalin M., Transmitted ions and ion heating in nearly-perpendicular low-Mach number shocks, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 15,569-15,578, 1996.

• Zilbersher D. and Gedalin M., Pick-up ion dynamics at the structured quasi-perpendicular shock, Planet. Sp. Sci., 45, 693-703, 1997.

• Gedalin M., Ion distributions at the quasiperpendicular collisionless shock front, Surveys in Geophysics, 18, 541-566, 1997.

• Gedalin M., Ion heating in oblique low-Mach number shocks, Geophys. Res. Lett. 24, 2511-2514, 1997.

• M. Gedalin, Influence of the rippling on the collisionless ion and electron motion in the shock front: A model study, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 21645-21655, 2001.

• M. Gedalin and M. Balikhin,  Electric potential in the low-Mach-number quasi-perpendicular collisionless shock ramp revisited, J. Geophys. Res., 9 (A3), A03106, 2004.

• M.A. Balikhin, T.L. Zhang, M. Gedalin , N.Y. Ganushkina, S.A.Pope, Venus Express observes the new type of shock with pure kinematic relaxation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L01103, 2008,\\ doi:10.1029/2007GL032495.

• M. Gedalin, M. Liverts, M.A. Balikhin, Distribution of escaping ions produced by non-specular reflection at the stationary quasi-perpendicular shock front, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A05101, doi:10.1029/2007JA012894.

• L. Ofman, M. Balikhin, C.T. Russell, M. Gedalin, Collisionless relaxation of ion distributions downstream of laminar quasi-perpendicular shocks, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A09106\\ doi:10.1029/2009JA014365, 2009.

• M. Gedalin, M. Medvedev, A. Spitkovsky, V. Krasnoselskikh, M. Balikhin, A. Vaivads, and S. Perri, Growth of filaments and saturation of the filamentation instability, Phys. Plasmas, 17, 032108 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3345824.

• A. Yalinewich, M. Gedalin, Instabilities of relativistic counterstreaming proton beams in the presence of a thermal electron background, Phys. Plasmas, 17, 062101 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.343272.

• M. Gedalin, E. Smolik, A. Spitkovsky, M. Balikhin, Electron heating by filamentary instability, EPL, 97, 35002, 2012, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/97/35002.

• M. Gedalin and A. Spitkovsky, Heliospheric and astrophysical shocks: Common features and differences, AIP Conf. Proc. 1439, pp. 172-181, 2012; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3701359.

• L. Haim, M. Gedalin, A. Spitkovsky, V. Krasnoselskikh and M. Balikhin, Nonlinear waves and shocks in relativistic two-fluid hydrodynamics, J. Plasma Phys. , 2012, doi:10.1017/S002237781200013X.

• E. Golbraikh, M. Gedalin, M. Balikhin, T. L. Zhang, Large amplitude nonlinear waves in Venus magnetosheath, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1002/jgra.50094 (in press).

• L. Ofman and M. Gedalin, Two-dimensional hybrid simulations of quasi-perpendicular collisionless shock dynamics: Gyrating downstream ion distributions, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2012JA018188 (in press).

• D. Ariad and M. Gedalin, The role pickup ions play in the termination shock, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1002/jgra.50170 (in press).