Paper:	Stability Properties of Two-Fluid Accretion Shocks with Multiple Cooling Processes
Volume:	157, Annapolis Workshop on Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables
Page:	317
Authors:	Wu, Kinwah; Saxton, Curtis J.
Abstract:	We have carried out a linear analysis of accretion shocks with multiple cooling processes and different electron and ion temperatures. We found that the decoupling of the electron and ion temperatures can introduce instability. A cyclotron-cooling dominated shock, which is generally stable if the electrons and ions have equal temperatures, can become unstable when the electron and ion temperatures are decoupled.

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