Active measurement of the thermal electron density and temperature on the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter of the BepiColombo mission

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 686-692

  Trotignon, J G ^a   Beghin C ^a   Lagoutte, D ^a   Michau, J L ^a   Matsumoto, H ^b   Kojima, H ^b   Hashimoto, K ^b   Kasaba, Y ^c   Blomberg, L G ^d   Lebreton, J P ^e   Masson, A ^e   Hamelin, M ^f   Pottelette, R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Active experiment; BepiColombo mission; Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter; Mercury plasma environment; Plasma density and electron temperature measurements; Plasma Wave Investigation consortium

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLANETS; PLASMA DENSITY;

ACTIVE EXPERIMENT; BEPICOLOMBO MISSION; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS; MERCURY MAGNETOSPHERIC ORBITER; MERCURY PLASMA ENVIRONMENT; PLASMA WAVE INVESTIGATION CONSORTIUM;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33750994666     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.03.031     Document Type: Article

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