GEOTAIL observations of anomalously low density plasma in the magnetosheath

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 3781-3784

  Terasawa, T ^a   Kasaba, Y ^b   Tsubouchi, K ^b   Mukai, T ^b   Saito, Y ^b   Frank, L A ^c   Paterson, W R ^c   Ackerson, K ^c   Matsumoto, H ^d   Kojima, H ^d   Matsui, H ^e   Larson, D ^b   Lin, R ^b   Phan, T ^b   Steinberg, J ^f   McComas, D ^f   Skoug, R ^f   Fujimoto, M ^g   Hoshino, M ^a   Nishida, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ISAS ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY PLASMA; MAGNETOSHEATH; SOLAR WIND; BOW SHOCKS; GEOTAIL OBSERVATIONS; LOW DENSITY; LOW-DENSITY PLASMAS; MAGNETOSHEATHS; PEAK SEPARATIONS; PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIQUE FEATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRONS; PLASMA DENSITY; PROTONS; WIND; PLASMA SHOCK WAVES;

GEOPHYSICS; SOLAR WIND;

PLASMA;

EID: 17744397510     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL000087     Document Type: Article

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