Parameters of solar wind electron heat-flux pitch-angle distributions and IMF topologies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Feuerstein, W M ^a   Larson, D E ^a   Luhmann, J G ^a   Lin, R P ^a   Kahler, S W ^b   Crooker, N U ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2134 Interplanetary Physics: Interplaneatry magnetic fields; 2164 Interplanetary Physics: Solar wind plasma; 2169 Interplanetary Physics: Sources of the solar wind; 7513 Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy: Coronal mass ejections; 7524 Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy: Magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONS; HEAT FLUX; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIDIRECTIONAL ELECTRON (BDE); CLOSED FIELD TOPOLOGIES; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS (IMF); PITCH-ANGLE DISTRIBUTIONS (PAD);

SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 14044264942     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020529     Document Type: Article

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