Late-phase acceleration of energetic ions in corotating interaction regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2917-2920

  Reames, D V ^a   Ng, C K ^b   Mason, G M ^c   Dwyer, J R ^c   Mazur, J E ^c,d   Von Rosenvinge, T T ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONS; WIND; ION BEAMS; SHOCK WAVES; SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCELERATION EFFICIENCIES; COROTATING INTERACTION REGIONS; ENERGETIC ION; ENERGY SPECTRA; HIGH-SPEED SOLAR WIND STREAMS; SHOCK COMPRESSIONS; SOLAR WIND SPEED; WIND SPACECRAFT;

SOLAR WIND; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

COROTATING INTERACTION REGIONS; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 0031268875     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02841     Document Type: Article

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