Temperature profiles for the self-consistent shock solutions with shock velocities V_s = 25–60 km s⁻¹ propagating into gas at n_H = 10⁴ cm⁻³. The left shows profiles in the radiative precursor, with distance increasing towards the left (i.e. distance from the shock front), the middle shows postshock profiles with distance increasing towards the right in log scale while the right is the same as the middle but in linear scale. Peak temperatures increase with increasing shock velocity (see Eq. (1)).