The Io mass-loading disk: Model calculations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue A11, 2001, Pages 26243-26260

  Wang, Yongli ^a   Russell, Christopher T ^a   Raeder, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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