Temperature anisotropies of electrons and two-component protons in the dusk plasma sheet

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1417-1432

  Nishino, M N ^a   Fujimoto, M ^a   Terasawa, T ^b   Ueno, G ^c   Maezawa, K ^a   Mukai, T ^a   Saito, Y ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; PLASMA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34547246250     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-25-1417-2007     Document Type: Article

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