Experimental Observation of Electronic Shock Waves in a Collisionless Plasma
Ivanov A.A., Kozorovitskii L.L., Rusanov V.D., Sagdeev R.Z., Sobolenko D.N.
The existence of collisionless thermal waves in a plasma was first demonstrated experimentally in [1]. The occurrence of ion-acoustic noise on the front of a thermal wave was noted in [2, 3], i.e., the feasibility of a stationary discontinuity was demonstrated [4].