Evidence of currents and unstable particle distributions in an extended region around the lunar plasma wake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1427-1430

  Bale, S D ^a   Owen, C J ^a   Bougeret, J L ^b   Goetz, K ^c,e   Kellogg, P J ^c,e   Lepping, R P ^d   Manning, R ^b   Monson, S J ^c,e  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ION ACOUSTIC WAVES; WAKES; ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LANGMUIR WAVES; NOMINAL WAKES; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; PLASMA WAKES; TIME OF FLIGHT; WIND SPACECRAFT;

MOON; PLASMA WAVES;

LANGMUIR WAVES; LUNAR PLASMA WAKE; SOLAR WIND; UNSTABLE PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0031165280     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01193     Document Type: Article

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