Correction to "Formation of power-law energy spectra in space plasmas by stochastic acceleration due to whistler-mode waves"

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1121-1124

  Ma, Chun Yu ^a,b   Summers, Danny ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ELECTRONS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMAS; RESONANCE; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

POWER LAW ENERGY SPECTRA; SPACE PLASMAS; STOCHASTIC ACCELERATION; WHISTLER MODE WAVES;

PLASMA WAVES;

PLASMA;

EID: 0033560525     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900152     Document Type: Article

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