Dayside transients, such as hot flow anomalies, foreshock bubbles, magnetosheath jets, flux
transfer events, and surface waves, are frequently observed upstream from the bow shock …

A comprehensive review is given of the theory and properties of nonrelativistic shocks in hot
collisionless plasmas—in view of their possible application in astrophysics. Understanding …

This review highlights conceptual issues that have both governed and reflected the direction
of collisionless shock research in the past quarter century. These include MHD waves and …

A recent paper [L.-N. Hau and W.-Z. Fu, Phys. Plasmas 14, 110702 (2007)] deals with
certain mathematical and physical properties of the kappa distribution. We comment on the …

Ion-acoustic waves are investigated in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma comprising
dynamical ions and inertialess cold and hot (C–H) electrons expressed by Maxwellian …

In this paper, the modified Kadomtsev Petviashvili (mKP) equation is derived by considering
the dynamics of the dust-acoustic waves (DAWs) with kappa-distributed hot and cold ions …

The presence of the geometrical curvature makes the planar Korteweg–de Vries (KdV)
equation inadequate to describe the propagation of nonlinear waves. In many scientific …

A generalized plasma dispersion function has previously been obtained for waves in
plasmas with isotropic kappa distributions for arbitrary real kappa [Mace and Hellberg, Phys …

Cosmic plasmas are considered as the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the
Universe while observations of the cosmic dust in different regions provide an insight into …

The highly localized acceleration of electrons at the foreshock reported by Anderson et
al.(1979) is explained in terms of a fast Fermi process. The basic notion is that in the solar …