Dayside reconnected field lines in the south-dusk near-tail flank during an IMF By < 0 dominated period

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 931-934

  Fujimoto, M ^a   Mukai, T ^b   Matsuoka, A ^b   Nishida, A ^b   Terasawa, T ^c   Seki, K ^c   Hayakawa, H ^b   Yamamoto, T ^b   Kokubun, S ^d   Lepping, R P ^e,f  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN;

INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELD;

MAGNETOSPHERE; IONS;

FIELD LINES; FLUX TUBES; GEOTAIL; MAGNETOTAILS; POLAR CAP; SOLAR WIND PLASMAS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0031124512     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00106     Document Type: Article

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