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New research on one of the Universe’s most efficient particle accelerators – collisionless shocks
In a doctoral thesis from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and Uppsala University, new insights into the interaction between charged particles and plasma waves at the Earth’s collisionless bow shock are presented. Ahmad Lalti, who has analyzed data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites, defends his thesis on May 31. The Earth’s bow…