First whistler observed in the magnetosphere of Saturn

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Akalin, Ferzan ^a   Gurnett, D A ^a   Averkamp, T F ^a   Persoon, A M ^a   Santolik, O ^a,b,c   Kurth, W S ^a   Hospodarsky, G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHTNING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; PLASMA WAVES; PROTONS; SPACECRAFT;

PLASMA DISTRIBUTION; RADIO AND PLASMA WAVE SCIENCE; WHISTLER;

MAGNETOSPHERE;

ELECTRON DENSITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; SATURN; SPACECRAFT; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 33845621018     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027019     Document Type: Article

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