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The κ-cookbook: a novel generalizing approach to unify κ-like distributions for plasma particle modelling

Fichtner, H.; Scherer, K.; Lazar, M. +1 more

In the literature different so-called κ-distribution functions are discussed to fit and model the velocity (or energy) distributions of solar wind species, pickup ions, or magnetospheric particles. Here, we introduce a generalized (isotropic) κ-distribution as a 'cookbook', which admits as special cases, or 'recipes', all the other known versions …