Saturn's auroral/polar H+3 infrared emission. II. A comparison with plasma flow models

Icarus

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 678-690

  Stallard, Tom ^a   Smith, Chris ^b   Miller, Steve ^b   Melin, Henrik ^c   Lystrup, Makenzie ^b   Aylward, Alan ^b   Achilleos, Nick ^b   Dougherty, Michele ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Planetary and Space Science Division ^*  (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmosphere; Aurorae; Infrared observations; Ionospheres; magnetosphere; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448949888     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.05.016     Document Type: Article

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