Limit on stably trapped particle fluxes in planetary magnetospheres

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Summers, Danny ^a,b   Tang, Rongxin ^a   Thorne, Richard M ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 72649088523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JA014428     Document Type: Article

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