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On the relative intercalibration of solar wind instruments on IMP‐8 and ISEE‐3
Author(s) -
Russell C. T.,
Petrinec S. M.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/92gl01019
Subject(s) - solar wind , magnetosphere , physics , atmospheric sciences , environmental science , astronomy , plasma , geophysics , nuclear physics
Simultaneous measurements of density on IMP‐8 and ISEE‐3 are intercompared as a function of velocity and ion temperature. Systematic differences are found of a magnitude sufficiently large to be important in studies of the solar wind interaction with the magnetosphere.