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Title: Whistler wave generation by anisotropic tail electrons during asymmetric magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory

Journal Article · · Geophysical Research Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079278· OSTI ID:1465996
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  1. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  3. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Research Organization:
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-09CH11466; AC52-06NA25396; NNH14AX63I; AGS-1543598; AGS-1202537; AGS-1552142; SC0016278; FG02-00ER54585; AC0209CH1146; DESC0016278
OSTI ID:
1465996
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1467278; OSTI ID: 1467734
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-18-20161
Journal Information:
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 45, Issue 16; ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher:
American Geophysical UnionCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 15 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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Interplay between Kelvin–Helmholtz and lower-hybrid drift instabilities journal November 2019
Whistler Waves Driven by Field‐Aligned Streaming Electrons in the Near‐Earth Magnetotail Reconnection journal May 2019
Whistler wave generation by electron temperature anisotropy during magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause journal May 2019
Observation of weakly damped modes using high resolution measurement of turbulence in a dipole confined plasma journal January 2020
Whistler wave generation by anisotropic tail electrons during asymmetric magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory dataset January 2018