Thin embedded current sheets: Cluster observations of ion kinetic structure and analytical models

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4075-4087

  Artemyev, A V ^a,b   Petrukovich, A A ^a   Zelenyi, L M ^a   Nakamura, R ^c   Malova, H V ^a,b   Popov, V Y ^a,b  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

Author keywords

Magnetospheric physics (Magnetotail); Space plasma physics (Numerical simulation studies)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ION; KINETICS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLASMA;

EID: 70749152453     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-4075-2009     Document Type: Article

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