Cold ions in the hot plasma sheet of Earth's magnetotail

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6932, 2003, Pages 589-592

  Seki, Kanako ^a   Hirahara, Masafumi ^b   Hoshino, Masahiro ^c   Terasawa, Toshio ^c   Elphic, Richard C ^d   Saito, Yoshifumi ^e   Mukai, Toshifumi ^e   Hayakawa, Hajime ^e   Kojima, Hirotsugu ^f   Matsumoto, Hiroshi ^f  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; IONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMA SOURCES; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM;

EARTH (PLANET);

ION;

MAGNETOTAIL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOSENSOR; BLOOD FLOW; COLD; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HEATING; OBSERVATION; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; THEORY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WIND;

EID: 0037431239     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01502     Document Type: Article

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