Measuring plasma parameters with thermal noise spectroscopy

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 103, Issue , 1998, Pages 205-210

  Meyer Vernet, Nicole ^a   Hoang, Sang ^a   Issautier, Karine ^a   Maksimovic, Milan ^a   Manning, Robert ^a   Moncuque, Michel ^a   Stone, Robert G ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 84971001967     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118664391.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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