The latitudinal dependence of ion temperature in the Io plasma torus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1175-1178

  Thomas, Nicolas ^a   Lichtenberg, Günter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOON; PLASMAS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTROSCOPY; TELESCOPES; TEMPERATURE;

DOPPLER RESOLVED SPECTRA; EXTRAPOLATION; IO PLASMA TORUS; ION TEMPERATURE; KAPPA DISTRIBUTION MODEL; LATITUDINAL DEPENDENCE; MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION; PLASMA EQUATOR;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0031142490     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01133     Document Type: Article

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