Cause of super-thermal electron heating during magnetotail reconnection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Egedal, J ^c   Le A ^c   Zhu, Y ^c   Daughton, W ^a   Oieroset M ^d   Phan, T ^d   Lin, R P ^d,e   Eastwood, J P ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MECHANISMS; CANDIDATE MECHANISMS; EARTH'S MAGNETOTAIL; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; ENERGIZATION; HIGH ENERGY; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; KINETIC SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETOTAIL RECONNECTION; PARALLEL ELECTRIC FIELDS; RELATIVE ENERGIES; THERMAL ELECTRON;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; THERMIONIC EMISSION;

ELECTRONS;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL;

EID: 77953053782     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043487     Document Type: Article

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