Average plasma sheet polytropic index as observed by THEMIS
Multi-spacecraft data from the years 2008 to 2015 of the THEMIS mission particularly in the near-Earth plasma sheet are used in order to empirically determine the polytropic index in the quiet and active time magnetotail. The results of a number of previous studies in the 1990s can be confirmed....
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Médium: | Článek |
Jazyk: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2017-02-01
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Edice: | Annales Geophysicae |
On-line přístup: | https://www.ann-geophys.net/35/253/2017/angeo-35-253-2017.pdf |