A theory for AKR fine frequency structure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4461-4464

  Yoon, Peter H ^a   Weatherwax, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

AURORAL KILOMETRIC RADIATION (AKR); ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; AURORAL KILOMETRIC RADIATIONS; CYCLOTRON MASER INSTABILITY; FREQUENCY STRUCTURE; NARROW BANDWIDTH; REALISTIC MODEL; RING BEAMS; SOURCE REGION;

ASTROPHYSICS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0032534932     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900210     Document Type: Article

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