A novel method to measure the solar wind speed

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1649-1652

  Issautier, Karine ^a   Meyer Vernet, Nicole ^a   Moncuquet, Michel ^a   Hoang, Sang ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND; TERMINALS (ELECTRIC); AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANTENNAS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONS; PLASMAS; RADIO SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BULK TEMPERATURES; ELECTROSTATIC ANALYZER; MAGNETOSPHERIC STUDIES; NOISE SPECTROSCOPY; PLASMA EXPERIMENTS; SOLAR WIND SPEED; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; ULYSSES SPACECRAFT;

WIND; ASTROPHYSICS;

CLASSICAL ELECTROSTATIC ANALYSIS; DOPPLER SHIFTED THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; PLASMA IONS; SOLAR WIND; SOLAR WIND SPEED; SPACE PLASMA; THERMAL NOISE SPECTROSCOPY; UNIFIED RADIO AND PLASMA EXPERIMENT;

EID: 0030169837     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01070     Document Type: Article

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