Quasineutral sheet combined instability in the geomagnetotail including tearing and cross-field current instabilities

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 389, 1996, Pages 435-439

  Kropotkin, A P ^a   Sitnov, M I ^a   Trubachev, O O ^a   Lui, A T Y ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 5244233683     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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