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John Wygant
Professor of Physics

General information:


email: wygant@ham.space.umn.edu 
Mail : John Wygant
       School of Physics and Astronomy
       University of Minnesota
       Tate Lab, 116 Church Street, S.E.,
       Minneapolis, MN 55455

Research Interests:

The in situ measurement from spacecraft of electric fields and waves involved in particle transport and energization in the terrestrial magnetosphere and the nearby interplanetary medium.

Selected Publications:

"The CRRES Electric Field/Langmuir Probe Instrument," J. Spacecraft and Rockets, 29, 601 (1992).

"Observations of CRRES Electric and Magnetic Field Measurements During the Alfven Wave Braking of a Barium Release in the Ionosphere," Geophys. Res. Lett., (1994).

"Large Amplitude Electric and Magnetic Field Signatures in the Inner` Magnetosphere During an SSC Induced Injection of 15MeV Electron Drift Echoes," Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, No. 16, 1739 (1994).

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