X-ray emission from comets and planets

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1443-1451

  Cravens, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; PLASMAS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WIND EFFECTS; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE; HEAVY IONS; PHOTONS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

COMETS; EIREV; ION CYCLOTRON WAVES; MAGNETOSPHERIC ION SPUTTERING; PLASMA MIXING RECESS; SOLAR WIND INTERACTION; WHISTLER MODE PROPAGATION; COMETARY EMISSION X RAYS;

SPACE RESEARCH; PLANETS;

EID: 0033716517     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00100-9     Document Type: Article

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