Interrelation Among Double Layers, Parallel Electric Fields, and Density Depletions

Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas: Geospace and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 231-247

  Singh, Nagendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Particle acceleration; Plasma astrophysics; Space plasmas

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA DENSITY;

ASSOCIATED DENSITIES; COLLISIONLESS MAGNETIZED PLASMAS; CURRENT-CARRYING PLASMAS; CURRENT-DRIVEN PLASMA; PARALLEL ELECTRIC FIELDS; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; PLASMA ELECTRODYNAMICS; SPACE PLASMAS;

COLLISIONLESS PLASMAS;

EID: 84952650502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/156GM25     Document Type: Chapter

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