Energetic oxygen ion bursts in the distant magnetotail as a product of intense substorms: Three case studies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A9, 1998, Pages 20339-20363

  Zong, Q G ^a   Wilken, B ^a   Woch, J ^a   Mukai, T ^b   Yamamoto, T ^b   Reeves, G D ^c   Doke, T ^d   Maezawa, K ^e   Williams, D J ^f   Kokubun, S ^e   Ullaland, S ^g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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