An emerging new picture on plasma heating at Earth's quasi-perpendicular shocks


Li-Jen Chen1, Shan Wang2, Lynn B Wilson III1, Steven J Schwartz3, Naoki Bessho4, Christopher T Russell5, Thomas Earle Moore6 and the MMS team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States