Correction of the Jicamarca electron-ion temperature ratio problem: Verifying the effect of electron Coulomb collisions on the incoherent scatter spectrum

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue A11, 2001, Pages 24785-24793

  Aponte, Néstor ^a,b   Sulzer, Michael P ^a,b   González, Sixto A ^a,b  

^a ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

^b Arecibo Observatory   (Puerto Rico)

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