Evidence for electron acceleration up to ∼300 keV in the magnetic reconnection diffusion region of earth's magnetotail

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 19, 2002, Pages

  Oieroset M ^a   Lin, R P ^a   Phan, T D ^a   Larson, D E ^a   Bale, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; IONS; KINETIC ENERGY; PLASMA JETS;

DIFFUSION REGION; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ENERGIZATION; MAGNETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; PLASMA PROCESS; WIND MEASUREMENTS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 4243679057     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.195001     Document Type: Article

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