Phase-steepened Alfvén waves, proton perpendicular energization and the creation of magnetic holes and magnetic decreases: The ponderomotive force

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Tsurutani, B T ^a   Dasgupta, B ^a   Galvan, C ^a   Neugebauer, M ^a,b   Lakhina, G S ^c   Arballo, J K ^a   Winterhalter, D ^a   Goldstein, B E ^a   Buti, B ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^d INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

ACCELERATED IONS; DIAMAGNETIC EFFECTS; ENERGIZATION; MAGNETIC DECREASE; PLASMA REGIMES; PONDEROMOTIVE FORCES; PROTON ACCELERATION; PROTON CYCLOTRONS;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 0038404765     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015652     Document Type: Article

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