Current sheet kink instability at ion-electron hybrid scale

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2663-2666

  Suzuki, H ^a   Fujimoto, M ^a   Shinohara, I ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

CURRENT SHEET KINK INSTABILITY (CSKI); DRIFT-KINK INSTABILITY (DKI);

SPACE RESEARCH;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0036934915     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)80376-3     Document Type: Article

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