A nightside source of Saturn's kilometric radiation: Evidence for an inner magnetosphere energy driver

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Farrell, William M ^a   Desch, M D ^a   Kaiser, M L ^a   Lecacheux, A ^b   Kurth, W S ^c   Gurnett, D A ^c   Cecconi, B ^b   Zarka, P ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRONS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; ORBITS; PLANETS; PLASMA WAVES; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

MAGNETOSPHERE ENERGY DRIVER; RADIO AND PLASMA WAVE (RPWS); RADIO EMISSION; SATURN KILOMETRIC RADIATION (SKR);

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

MAGNETOSPHERE; SATURN;

EID: 27744433638     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023449     Document Type: Article

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