Anomalous resistivity in non-Maxwellian plasmas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A12, 2003, Pages

  Petkaki, P ^a   Watt, C E J ^b   Horne, R B ^a   Freeman, M P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anomalous resistivity; Ion acoustic instability; Lorentzian distribution; Magnetic reconnection; Wave particle interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 4143087668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA010092     Document Type: Article

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