Cold dense ion flows in the distant magnetotail: The geotail results

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 105, Issue , 1998, Pages 45-60

  Hirahara, Masafumi ^a,b,c   Seki, Kanako ^a   Mukai, Toshifumi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 0040684368     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM105p0045     Document Type: Chapter

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