Electron acceleration in the reconnection diffusion region: Cluster observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Huang, S Y ^a,b   Vaivads, A ^a   Khotyaintsev, Y V ^a   Zhou, M ^c   Fu, H S ^a   Retin, A ^d   Deng, X H ^b,c   Andre M ^a   Cully, C M ^a   He, J S ^e   Sahraoui, F ^d   Yuan, Z G ^b   Pang, Y ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Observatoire de Saint Maur   (France)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

CLUSTER OBSERVATIONS; CLUSTER SPACECRAFT; CORE MAGNETIC FIELDS; CORE REGION; DIFFUSION REGION; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; ENERGETIC ELECTRON; FERMI ACCELERATION; MAGNETIC ISLAND; THIN CURRENT SHEET;

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

ACCELERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; ISLAND; MAGNETIC FIELD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84861860281     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051946     Document Type: Article

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