Origin of temperature anisotropies in the cold plasma sheet: Geotail observations around the Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2069-2086

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON; HEATING; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOPAUSE; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA; SOLAR WIND; VORTICITY;

EID: 34948847650     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-25-2069-2007     Document Type: Article

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