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Magnetic ionization fronts II: Jump conditions for oblique magnetization

R. J. R. Williams, J. E. Dyson, T. W. Hartquist

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0001116

Abstract

We present the jump conditions for ionization fronts with oblique magnetic fields. The standard nomenclature of R- and D-type fronts can still be applied, but in the case of oblique magnetization there are fronts of each type about each of the fast- and slow-mode speeds. As an ionization front slows, it will drive first a fast- and then a slow-mode shock into the surrounding medium. Even for rather weak upstream magnetic fields, the effect of magnetization on ionization front evolution can be important. [Includes numerical MHD models and an application to observations of S106.]

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