Citation: | Jin, Y. and Pang, Y. (2020). The effect of cavity density on the formation of electrostatic shock in the lunar wake: 1-D hybrid simulation. Earth Planet. Phys., 4(3), 223–230. doi: 10.26464/epp2020013 |
One-dimensional hybrid simulations are carried out to study the plasma refilling process in the lunar wake. Previous theoretical and simulation studies have shown that ion-ion acoustic (ⅡA) instability can be initiated and electrostatic shock can be formed under the condition