Ion temperature anisotropies in the Earth's high-latitude magnetosheath: Hawkeye observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 587-590

  Tan, L C ^a,b   Fung, S F ^a   Kessel, R L ^a   Chen, S H ^a,b   Green, J L ^a   Eastman, T E ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; IONS; PROTONS; SENSORS; SPACECRAFT; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ORBITS; PLASMA SHOCK WAVES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; HAWKEYE SPACECRAFT; ION TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPIES; MAGNETOSHEATHS;

MAGNETOSPHERE; IONS;

FIRST ORDER ANISOTROPY; HIGH LATITUDES; INVERSE CORRELATION; ION COMPONENTS; ION TEMPERATURE; MAGNETOSHEATHS; SAMPLE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPY;

EID: 0032025520     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00306     Document Type: Article

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