Magnetosheath waves under very low solar wind dynamic pressure: Wind/Geotail observations

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1317-1333

  Farrugia, Charlie J ^a   Gratton, F T ^b   Gnavi, G ^b   Matsui, H ^a   Torbert, R B ^a   Fairfield, D H ^c   Ogilvie, K W ^c   Lepping, R P ^c   Terasawa, T ^d   Mukai, T ^f   Saito, Y ^e  

^a University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b Instituto de Fisica del Plasma Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Ionosphere (Wave particle interactions); Magnetospheric physics (Magnetosheath); Radio science (Waves in plasma)

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

EID: 23744442379     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-23-1317-2005     Document Type: Article

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