Modulation of Saturn's radio clock by solar wind speed

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7167, 2007, Pages 265-267

  Zarka, Philippe ^a   Lamy, Laurent ^a   Cecconi, Baptiste ^a   Prangé, Renée ^a   Rucker, Helmut O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b Space Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATION BUDGET; ROTATION; SATURN; SOLAR WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; VELOCITY; WIND;

EID: 36048958862     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06237     Document Type: Article

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