Are Neptune's highly dispersed whistlers really z-mode radiation?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 587-590

  Farrell, W M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA DENSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY; EMISSION FEATURES; IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITIES; LARGE DISPERSION; LOW FREQUENCY LIMITS; NEPTUNE; PLASMASPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS;

NEPTUNIA; PACHYCEPHALIDAE;

EID: 0009605327     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03090     Document Type: Article

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