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Caption: Figure 5.
Top panel: magnetic field upstream of the shock at
, for different Mach numbers as in the legend. Btot(x) is averaged over 200 c/ωp in the transverse size and over
in time, in order to smooth time and space fluctuations. Bottom panel: total amplification factor, averaged over a distance Δx = 10 MAc/ωp ahead of the shock, as a function of the Alfvénic Mach number (red symbols). The dashed line corresponds to
Btot/B0
2 = 0.45 MA, and represents the prediction of resonant streaming instability (see Equation (2), with ζcr = 0.15).
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