Ion sources and acceleration mechanisms inferred from local distribution functions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 955-958

  Ashour Abdalla, M ^a,h   El Alaoui, M ^a,h   Peroomian, V ^a,h   Raeder, J ^a,h   Walker, R J ^a,h   Richard, R L ^a,h   Zelenyi, L M ^b   Frank, L A ^c   Paterson, W R ^c   Bosqued, J M ^d   Lepping, R P ^e   Ogilvie, K ^e   Kokubun, S ^f   Yamamoto, T ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HYDROGEN; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; VELOCITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ION SOURCES; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOPLASMA; ORBITS;

MAGNETOTAIL;

ION SOURCES; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

ACCELERATION MECHANISMS; ACCELERATION PROCESS; LOW ENERGY STRUCTURES; LOW LATITUDE BOUNDARY LAYER; MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS; NEAR-EARTH MAGNETOTAIL; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031117102     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00060     Document Type: Article

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