Relationship between the Geotail spacecraft potential and the magnetospheric electron number density including the distant tail regions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 6309-6319

  Ishisaka, K ^a   Okada, T ^a   Tsuruda, K ^b   Hayakawa, H ^b   Mukai, T ^b   Matsumoto, H ^c  

^a TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 2142784569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000ja000077     Document Type: Article

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