Upward high-energy field-aligned electron beams above the polar edge of auroral oval: Observations from the SKA-3 instruments onboard the Auroral Probe (Interball-2)

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1046-1055

  Stepanov, V A ^a   Galperin, Y I ^a   Kuzmin, A K ^a   Shuiskaya, F K ^a   Gorn, L S ^b   Ilyin, B A ^b   Iovlev, M V ^b   Klimashov, A A ^b   Cherkashin, I I ^b   Khazanov, B I ^b   Safronov, A Y ^b  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b State Scientific Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ionosphere (particle acceleration; wave particle interactions); Magnetospheric physics (magnetosphere ionosphere interactions)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346723425     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-1046-1     Document Type: Article

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