Modeling PSBL high speed ion beams observed by Cluster and Double Star

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1598-1610

  Ashour Abdalla, Maha ^a,b   Bosqued, Jean Michel ^c   El Alaoui, Mostafa ^a   Peroomian, Vahé ^a   Umeda, Takayuki ^d   Walker, Raymond J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global MHD simulations; Ion beams; Magnetosphere; Non adiabatic acceleration; Plasma sheet boundary layer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ION BEAMS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC CONVERTERS; MAGNETOSPHERE; SOLAR WIND;

GLOBAL MHD SIMULATIONS; NON-ADIABATIC ACCELERATION; PARTICLE TRACING; PLASMA SHEET BOUNDARY LAYERS;

STARS;

EID: 41949131577     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.04.018     Document Type: Article

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