Collisionless shocks are loosely defined as shocks where the transition between pre-and post-shock states happens on a length scale much shorter than the collisional mean free path. In the absence of collision to enforce thermal equilibrium post-shock, electrons and ions need not have the same temperatures. While the acceleration of electrons for injection into shock acceleration processes to produce cosmic rays has received considerable attention, the related problem of the shock heating of quasi-thermal electrons has been relatively neglected.
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Ghavamian, P., Schwartz, S. J., Mitchell, J., Masters, A., & Laming, J. M. (2014). Microphysics of Cosmic Plasmas. Microphysics of Cosmic Plasmas, 47, 365–381. Retrieved from http://adsabs.harvard.edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/abs/2014mcp..book..557G
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