Properties of small-scale Alfvén waves and accelerated electrons from FAST

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A4, 2003, Pages

  Chaston, C C ^a   Bonnell, J W ^a   Carlson, C W ^a   McFadden, J P ^a   Ergun, R E ^b   Strangeway, R J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2431 ionosphere: Ionosphere magnetosphere interactions (2736); 2704 magnetospheric physics: Auroral phenomena (2407); 2716 magnetospheric physics: Energetic particles; 2736 magnetospheric physics: Magnetosphere ionosphere interactions; Precipitating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905356901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009420     Document Type: Article

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