In situ detection of collisionless reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6845, 2001, Pages 414-417

  Oieroset M ^a   Phan, T D ^a   Fujimoto, M ^b   Lin, R P ^a   Lepping, R P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA JETS;

MAGNETIC ENERGY;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DIFFUSION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0035954520     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35086520     Document Type: Article

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