Vapor clouds generated by laser ablation and hypervelocity impact

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Kadono, T ^a,b   Sugita, S ^b   Mitani, N K ^b   Fuyuki, M ^b   Ohno, S ^b   Sekine, Y ^b   Matsui, T ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; SILICATES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

FUNCTION OF TIME; HIGH INTENSITY LASERS; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS; IMPACT VELOCITIES; LASER ABLATION EXPERIMENT; THERMODYNAMIC STATE; VAPOR CLOUD;

LASER ABLATION;

EID: 0037110228     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015694     Document Type: Article

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