Origin of ultraviolet emission source in the Jovian ionosphere at the feet of the Io flux tube

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue A11, 2001, Pages 26049-26056

  Shaposhnikov, Vladimir E ^a   Zaitsev, Valerii V ^a   Rucker, Helmut O ^b   Litvinenko, Galina V ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF RADIO ASTRONOMY   (Ukraine)

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EID: 39449138983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001ja900066     Document Type: Article

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