In situ discovery of an electrostatic potential, trapping electrons and mediating fast reconnection in the earth's magnetotail

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Egedal, J ^a   Oieroset M ^b   Fox, W ^a   Lin, R P ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; PARTICLE SIMULATION;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON TRAPS; ELECTROSTATICS; IN SITU PROCESSING; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PLASMAS; SPACECRAFT;

GEOMAGNETISM;

EID: 18144425784     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.025006     Document Type: Article

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