Fingerprints of collisionless reconnection at the separator, I, Ambipolar-Hall signatures

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A10, 2002, Pages

  Scudder, J D ^a   Mozer, F S ^b   Maynard, N C ^c   Russell, C T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cusp; Magnetic reconnection; Magnetopause; Parallel electric fields; Scales; Separator

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749102177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA000126     Document Type: Article

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