Photoemission current-spacecraft voltage relation: Key to routine, quantitative low-energy plasma measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A9, 2000, Pages 21281-21294

  Scudder, J D ^a   Cao, Xuejun ^a   Mozer, F S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 39449088796     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja900423     Document Type: Article

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