Heating of the solar wind by pickup ion driven Alfvén ion cyclotron instability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 113-116

  Gray, P C ^a   Smith, C W ^a   Matthaeus, W H ^a   Otani, N F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPLASMA; PICKUPS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA STABILITY; SOLAR WIND;

HELIOCENTRIC DISTANCES; HYBRID PARTICLES; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; ION CYCLOTRON INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC ENERGIES; WIND DISTRIBUTION; WIND TEMPERATURE;

IONS;

EID: 0000439397     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03707     Document Type: Article

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