Double layers in expanding plasmas and their relevance to the auroral plasma processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A4, 2003, Pages

  Singh, Nagendra ^a   Khazanov, George ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

2704 magnetospheric physics: Auroral phenomena (2407); 2712 magnetospheric physics: Electric fields (2411); 2772 magnetospheric physics: Plasma waves and instabilities; 7843 space plasma physics: Numerical simulation studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905361598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009436     Document Type: Article

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