Relativistic charged particle precipitation into Jupiter's sub-auroral atmosphere

Icarus

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 311-319

  Abel, Bob ^a   Thorne, Richard M ^b  

^a Olympic College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Jupiter; Magnetosphere; Particle precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346973260     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.08.017     Document Type: Article

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