A pulsating auroral X-ray hot spot on Jupiter

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6875, 2002, Pages 1000-1003

  Gladstone, G R ^a   Waite, J H ^b   Grodent, D ^b   Lewis, W S ^a   Crary, F J ^b   Eisner, R F ^c   Welsskopf, M C ^c   Majeed, T ^b   Jahn, J M ^a   Bhardwaj, A ^d   Clarke, J T ^e   Young, D T ^b   Dougherty, M K ^f   Espinosa, S A ^g   Cravens, T E ^h  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; INFRARED RADIATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SULFUR COMPOUNDS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

JUPITER;

PLANETS;

OXYGEN; SULFUR;

AURORA; HOT SPOT; JUPITER; MAGNETOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ELECTRON; MAGNETISM; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; X RAY;

EID: 18244362305     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4151000a     Document Type: Article

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