The unipolar inductor myth: Mass addition or motional electric field as the source of field-aligned currents at Io

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1665-1670

  Russell, C T ^a,b   Huddleston, D E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF GASES; IONOSPHERE; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MOON; PLANETS; PLASMAS; SPACE PROBES;

ALFVEN CONDUCTANCE; COROTATIONAL VELOCITY; IO; JUPITER; MASS LOADING; SOLAR WIND INTERACTION; UNIPOLAR INDUCTOR; VENUS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0033727095     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00114-9     Document Type: Article

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