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  1. Space and Atmospheric Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK

    P. J. Cargill & K. Nykyri

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    B. Lavraud

  3. Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey, UK

    C. J. Owen & Y. Bogdanova

  4. CETP/IPSL, Vélizy, France

    B. Grison, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin & L. Rezeau

  5. Space Science Division, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK

    M. W. Dunlop

  6. ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    C. P. Escoubet

  7. International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

    G. Paschmann

  8. Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    T. D. Phan

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Cargill, P.J., Lavraud, B., Owen, C.J. et al. Cluster at the Magnetospheric Cusps. Space Sci Rev 118, 321–366 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-005-3835-0

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