Gyro-resonant electron acceleration at Jupiter

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-304

  Horne, Richard B ^a   Thorne, Richard M ^b   Glauert, Sarah A ^a   Douglas Menietti, J ^c   Shprits, Yuri Y ^b   Gurnett, Donald A ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GYROSCOPES; IONIZING RADIATION; MAGNETOPLASMA; ORBITS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; RADIATION BELTS; RELATIVITY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION;

ADIABATIC INVARIANTS; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GALILEO SPACECRAFT; RADIAL DIFFUSION; RELATIVISTIC ENERGY; VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELTS; WHISTLER-MODE WAVES;

ATMOSPHERICS;

EID: 41549143626     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys897     Document Type: Article

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