Reinterpretation of mirror modes as trains of slow magnetosonic solitons

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Stasiewicz, Krzysztof ^a,b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b Department of Earth Observation   (Poland)

Author keywords

2154 Interplanetary Physics: Planetary bow shocks; 2728 Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosheath; 2752 Magnetospheric Physics: MHD waves and instabilities; 7839 Space Plasma Physics: Nonlinear phenomena

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MIRRORS; OSCILLATIONS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS;

ANISOTROPIC ION PRESSURE; MAGNETOSHEATH; MAGNETOSONIC SOLITONS; MAGNETOSONIC WAVE-TRAINS;

SOLITONS; MAGNETIC MIRRORS;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

ANISOTROPIC ION PRESSURE; DERIVED PROPERTIES; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOSONIC SOLITONS; MAGNETOSONIC WAVE-TRAINS; MULTIPOINT MEASUREMENT; PERIODIC OSCILLATION; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES;

EID: 13244258539     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021282     Document Type: Article

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