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Wave-growth-limited Particle Confinement in a Near-parallel Interplanetary Shock Observed by Parker Solar Probe

  • Authors: A. Kouloumvakos, I. C. Jebaraj, M. A. Malkov, G. D. Berland, M. Gedalin, N. Wijsen, C. M. S. Cohen, O. V. Agapitov, D. J. McComas, D. G. Mitchell, E. Husidic, S. Yadav, M. E. Hill, R. McNutt

A. Kouloumvakos et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Proton energy spectrograms and magnetic-field observations from PSP on 2023 March 13, 02:00–12:00 UT. Top panel: proton differential flux energy spectrograms from PSP/IS⊙IS EPI-Lo (ChanP) for the sunward-looking apertures, which sample anti-sunward-streaming particles. Middle panel: the same for the anti-sunward-looking apertures, which sample sunward-streaming particles. Bottom panel: PSP/FIELDS magnetic-field components BR (orange), BT (teal), BN (gray), and ∣B∣ (black) in radial-tangential-normal (RTN) coordinates, with vertical dashed lines marking the five pitch-angle distribution (PAD) snapshot times used in Figure 2. The shaded band marks the EPI-Lo data gap caused by instrument saturation following the shock crossing.

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