Collisionless slow shocks in magnetotail reconnection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2709-2712

  Cremer, Michael ^a   Scholer, Manfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODEL; SIMULATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CYCLOTRONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONS; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; PLASMA SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; ANISOTROPY; CYCLOTRON RADIATION; ELECTRON BEAMS;

PLASMA COMPRESSION; PLASMA SHEET STABILITY; TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPY; CYCLOTRON INSTABILITY; HYBRID SIMULATION; ION CYCLOTRON WAVES; ISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD COMPONENTS; MAGNETOTAIL RECONNECTION; PARALLEL TEMPERATURES;

MAGNETOPLASMA; IONS;

MAGNETOTAIL;

EID: 0033452527     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900592     Document Type: Article

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