Energetic electrons produced by lower hybrid waves in the cometary environment and soft X ray emission: Bremsstrahlung and K shell radiation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A2, 1999, Pages 2537-2554

  Shapiro, V D ^a   Bingham, R ^b   Dawson, J M ^c   Dobe, Z ^d   Kellett, B J ^b   Mendis, D A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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