Non-Maxwellian particle distributions and electromagnetic ion cyclotron instabilities in the near-Earth magnetotail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2913-2916

  Chaston, C C ^a,b   Hu, Y D ^a   Fraser, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; ION BEAMS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

CROSS-OVER FREQUENCIES; ION CYCLOTRON INSTABILITY; ION DISTRIBUTIONS; NEAR-EARTH MAGNETOTAIL; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROTON DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVE NUMBERS;

VLASOV EQUATION; GEOMAGNETISM;

EARTH MAGNETOTAIL; ION DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0031273046     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02972     Document Type: Article

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