Thermal ion imagers and Langmuir probes in the Swarm electric field instruments

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 2655-2673

  Knudsen, D J ^a   Burchill, J K ^a   Buchert, S C ^b   Eriksson, A I ^b   Gill, R ^b   Wahlund, J E ^b   Ahlen L ^b   Smith, M ^c   Moffat, B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c COM DEV International ^*  (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

core plasma diagnostics; satellite instrumentation; thermal plasma instrumentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011689117     PISSN: 21699380     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JA022571     Document Type: Article

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