Detection of artificially generated ULF waves by the FAST spacecraft and its application to the "tagging" of narrow flux tubes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A2, 2003, Pages

  Wright, D M ^a   Davies, J A ^a   Yeoman, T K ^a   Robinson, T R ^a   Cash, S R ^a   Kolesnikova, E ^a   Lester, M ^a   Chapman, P J ^a   Strangeway, R J ^b   Home, R B ^c   Rietveld, M T ^d,e,g   Carlson, C W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d EISCAT ^*  (Norway)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g EISCAT   (Norway)

Author keywords

FAST spacecraft; High power RF heating; Ionospheric Alfven resonator; ULF waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645484528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009483     Document Type: Article

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