Pitch-angle scattering rates in planetary magnetospheres

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 237-250

  Summers, D ^a,b   Mace, R L ^b   Hellberg, M A ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; SCATTERING;

BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GYRORESONANT SCATTERING; QUASI-LINEAR THEORY;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

EID: 27844609414     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: 14697807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377804003186     Document Type: Article

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