Ulysses electron distributions fitted with Kappa functions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1151-1154

  Maksimovic, Milan ^a   Pierrard, Viviane ^b   Riley, Pete ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; CURVE FITTING; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONS; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DEVICES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SOLAR WIND;

KAPPA FUNCTIONS; SOLAR WIND; ULYSSES ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS;

SPACE RESEARCH; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON PLASMAS; FAST SOLAR WINDS; HIGH VELOCITY; KINETIC MODELING; ULYSSES;

EID: 0031141271     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00992     Document Type: Article

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