Ballooning instability at the plasma sheet-lobe interface and its implications for polar arc formation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Golovchanskaya, I V ^a   Kullen, A ^b   Maltsev, Y P ^a   Biernat, H ^c  

^a POLAR GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c Space Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

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EID: 33947155739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JA011092     Document Type: Article

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