Pickup ion acceleration by turbulent electric fields in the slow solar wind

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 3831-3834

  Le Roux, Jakobus A ^a   Matthaeus, William H ^a   Zank, Gary P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; SPACECRAFT; TURBULENCE; WIND; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONS; PICKUPS;

SOLAR WIND;

GEOPHYSICS; SOLAR WIND;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; SOLAR WIND; TURBULENCE;

ELECTRIC FIELD FLUCTUATIONS; ION ACCELERATIONS; ION SPECTRUM; LOW LATITUDES; MHD TURBULENCE; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR WIND SPEED; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

EID: 0035888509     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013400     Document Type: Article

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