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The Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions relate the density, velocity and pressure on both sides of a strong shock. For ideal gases and non-oblique shocks the conservation of mass, momentum and energy across the shock can be written as follows \citep[][chap.~7, \S~15]{http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1967pswh.book.....Z}, where the state before the front of the shock front is marked by the index 0, that behind the shock by index 1:
\begin{eqnarray}
\rho_0 v_0 &=& \rho_1 v_1
\label{RH1}\\ \label{eqn:RH1}\\
P_0+\rho_0 v_0^2 &=& P_1+\rho_1 v_1^2
\label{RH2}\\ \label{eqn:RH2}\\
\frac{5 P_0}{2\rho_0}+\frac{v_0^2}{2}&=&\frac{5 P_1}{2\rho_1}+\frac{v_1^2}{2} \
,\label{RH3} ,\label{eqNRH3}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\rho$ denotes the total mass density of the gas and $P$ its pressure.
Initially, the stellar wind is relatively cold and thus the thermodynamic pressure can be neglected, setting $P_0=0$. In the strong shock limit $v_0=4\;v_1$. With these two simplifications,
eqn.~\ref{RH3} eqn.~\ref{eqn:RH3} yields
\begin{equation}
P_1 = \frac{3}{4} \rho_0 v_0^2 \label{eqn:4}
\end{equation}