Cynthia Cattell
Professor of Physics
General information:
email: cattell@belka.space.umn.edu
Mail : Cynthia Cattell
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Minnesota
Tate Lab, 116 Church Street, S.E.,
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Links to Current Papers
Research Interests:
Microphysical processes such as current and beam driven instabilities
and wave-particle interactions, the physics of reconnection at the
magnetopause and in the magnetotail, particle acceleration in the
magnetotail and auroral zone, and planetary magnetospheres.
Selected Publications:
"Wave-particle Interactions on the Fast Satellite,"
Physics of Space Plasmas 343 (1989)
Scientific Publishers, Inc., Cambridge, MA (1990).
"ISEE-1 Observations of Electrostatic Ion Cylcotron Waves in
Association with Ion Beams on Auroral Field Lines from 2.5 to 4.5 Re,"
J. Geophys. Res., 96(11):421 (1991).
"An S3-3 Satellite Stidy of the Effects of the Solar Cycle on the
Auroral Acceleration Process," J. Geophys. Res., 96(17):903 (1991).
"Effects of the Solar Cycle on Auroral Particle Acceleration,"
Auroral Plasma Dynamics, Geophys. Monograph 80, 219 (1993).
"Geotail Observations of Spiky Electric Fields and Low-Frequency Waves
in the Plasma Sheet and Plasma Sheet Boundary," Geophys. Res. Lett.,
1994.
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