Lower-hybrid-drift and modified-two-stream instabilities in current sheet equilibrium

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A2, 2004, Pages

  Yoon, Peter H ^a   Lui, Anthony T Y ^b  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harris current sheet; Ion dominated current sheet; Lower hybrid drift; Modified two stream

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645967695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010180     Document Type: Article

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