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Gloeckler et al. 1995
Gloeckler, G., Schwadron, N.A., Fisk, L.A. and Geiss, J. (1995). Weak pitch angle scattering of few MV rigidity ions from measurements of anisotropies in the distribution function of interstellar pickup H+. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL02480. issn: 0094-8276.

The distribution function of interstellar pickup hydrogen is measured with the SWICS instrument on Ulysses at high heliographic latitudes, over a broad range of velocities, including those below that of the solar wind. It is found that these few MV ridgidity protons exhibit a pronounced inward radial streaming in the frame of the solar wind, suggesting that neither instabilities generated by the pickup ions nor ambient turbulence is effective in scattering and isotropizing these particles. These results have implications for theories for the instabilies associated with pickup ions and for the propagation of low rigidity particles in the solar wind. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995.

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Space Plasma Physics, Charged particle motion and acceleration, Space Plasma Physics, Transport processes, Space Plasma Physics, Wave/particle interactions, Interplanetary Physics, Interstellar gas
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