The plasma and suprathermal ion composition (PLASTIC) investigation on the STEREO observatories

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 136, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 437-486

  Galvin, A B ^a,b   Kistler, L M ^a,b   Popecki, M A ^a   Farrugia, C J ^a,b   Simunac, K D C ^a,b   Ellis, L ^a   Mobius E ^a,b   Lee, M A ^a,b   Boehm, M ^a   Carroll, J ^a   Crawshaw, A ^a   Conti, M ^a   Demaine, P ^a   Ellis, S ^a   Gaidos, J A ^a   Googins, J ^a   Granoff, M ^a   Gustafson, A ^a   Heirtzler, D ^a   King, B ^a   Knauss, U ^a   Levasseur, J ^a   Longworth, S ^a   Singer, K ^a   Turco, S ^a   Vachon, P ^a   Vosbury, M ^a   Widholm, M ^a   Blush, L M ^c   Karrer, R ^c   Bochsler, P ^c   Daoudi, H ^c   Etter, A ^c   Fischer, J ^c   Jost, J ^c   Opitz, A ^c   Sigrist, M ^c   Wurz, P ^c   Klecker, B ^d   Ertl, M ^d   Seidenschwang, E ^d   Wimmer Schweingruber, R F ^e   Koeten, M ^e   Thompson, B ^f   Steinfeld, D ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition; Coronal mass ejections; Multipoint spacecraft observations; Plasma; Solar wind; STEREO; Suprathermal; Time of flight spectrometer

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; IONIC CONDUCTION; NASA; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS; IONIC CHARGE STATES; MULTIPOINT SPACECRAFT OBSERVATIONS; PLASMA AND SUPRATHERMAL ION COMPOSITION (PLASTIC) ANALYSIS; TIME OF FLIGHT SPECTROMETERS;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 44649113894     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-007-9296-x     Document Type: Article

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