Modeling of Cluster's electric antennas in space: Application to plasma diagnostics

Radio Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Beghin C ^a,f   Decreau P M E ^a,f   Pickett, J ^b   Sundkvist, D ^a,c,f   Lefebvre, B ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMAS; SATELLITES;

ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION; MAXWELLIAN MODEL;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 32844472927     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RS003264     Document Type: Article

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