Polar spacecraft based comparisons of intense electric fields and Poynting flux near and within the plasma sheet-tail lobe boundary to UVI images: An energy source for the aurora

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A8, 2000, Pages 18675-18692

  Wygant, J R ^a   Keiling, A ^a   Cattell, C A ^a   Johnson, M ^a   Lysak, R L ^a   Temerin, M ^b   Mozer, F S ^b   Kletzing, C A ^c   Scudder, J D ^c   Peterson, W ^d   Russell, C T ^e   Parks, G ^f   Brittnacher, M ^f   Germany, G ^g   Spann, J ^g  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 39449112959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja900500     Document Type: Article

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