Strongly nonlinear magnetosonic waves and ion acceleration

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3575-3580

  Rau, Bernhard ^a,b   Tajima, Toshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001728065     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873076     Document Type: Article

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