Kinetic effects in the acceleration of auroral electrons in small scale Alfven waves: A FAST case study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Chaston, C C ^a   Bonnell, J W ^a   Carlson, C W ^a   McFadden, J P ^a   Strangeway, R J ^b   Ergun, R E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ION SOURCES; KINETIC THEORY; THERMAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; IONS; KINETICS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA SHEATHS; PLASMA WAVES;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURES; AURORAL ELECTRONS; AURORAL OVAL; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ELECTRON INERTIA; ELECTRON KINETIC EFFECTS; FIELD-ALIGNED ELECTRONS; KINETIC EFFECT; SPACECRAFT DATA;

GEOPHYSICS; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 0041689878     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015777     Document Type: Article

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