Correlations between the proton temperature anisotropy and transverse high-frequency waves in the solar wind

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Bourouaine, Sofiane ^a   Marsch, Eckart ^a   Neubauer, Fritz M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA WAVES; POWER SPECTRUM; PROTONS; SOLAR WIND; WAVE POWER;

CYCLOTRON INSTABILITY; CYCLOTRON WAVES; FAST SOLAR WINDS; GYROFREQUENCIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH FREQUENCY WAVES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ION TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD VECTORS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARALLEL TEMPERATURES; PLASMA FRAME; POWER DENSITIES; PROTON TEMPERATURES; RADIAL DISTANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSVERSE WAVES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

ANISOTROPY; ION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PLASMA; SATELLITE MISSION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOLAR WIND; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VECTOR; WAVE POWER;

EID: 77955182611     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043697     Document Type: Article

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