Hot electrons as tracers of large-scale structure of magnetotail current sheets

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Artemyev, A V ^a   Zelenyi, L M ^a   Petrukovich, A A ^a   Nakamura, R ^b  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; HOT ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

CLUSTER SPACECRAFT; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; CURRENT SHEETS; ELECTRON HEATING; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTAIL CURRENT SHEET; MAGNETOTAILS; MAXIMUM VALUES; MEAN VALUES; PLASMA CONVECTION; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THIN CURRENT SHEET; VERTICAL PRESSURE;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA; PREDICTION; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 79960532924     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047979     Document Type: Article

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