Kinetic theory of the drift kink instability in a current sheet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A12, 1998, Pages 29429-29443

  Daughton, William ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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