Magnetosonic solitons in space plasmas: Dark or bright solitons?

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 981-992

  Pokhotelov, O A ^a   Onishchenko, O G ^b   Balikhin, M A ^a   Stenflo, L ^c   Shukla, P K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PHASE VELOCITY; PLASMA THEORY; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

NON-MAXWELLIAN PLASMAS; NONLINEAR STRUCTURE; WAVENUMBER;

SOLITONS;

EID: 36249030109     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: 14697807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377807006526     Document Type: Article

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