Characteristics of Saturn's FUV aurora observed with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A9, 2004, Pages

  Gérard, Jean Claude ^a   Grodent, Denis ^a   Gustin, Jacques ^a   Saglam, Adem ^a   Clarke, John T ^b   Trauger, John T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Boston University   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron energy; Electron precipitation; Magnetosphere; Saturn; Spectroscopy; Ultraviolet aurora

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644579062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JA010513     Document Type: Article

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