An effect of neutral collisions on the excitation threshold of electrostatic ion-cyclotron waves

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3095-3098

  Koepke, M E ^a   Zintl, M W ^a   Good, T N ^a,b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HELIUM; IONS; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; SODIUM; CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTROSTATICS;

COLLISION FREQUENCY; COLLISIONALITY; COLLISIONLESS; EXCITATION THRESHOLD; ION CYCLOTRON WAVES; ION GYROFREQUENCY; ION-NEUTRAL COLLISION FREQUENCY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRAL PRESSURES;

PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; CYCLOTRON RADIATION;

EID: 0032529773     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02331     Document Type: Article

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