Measuring suprathermal electron parameters in space plasmas: Implementation of the quasi-thermal noise spectroscopy with kappa distributions using in situ Ulysses/URAP radio measurements in the solar wind

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Zouganelis, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

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EID: 55849103243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012979     Document Type: Article

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