Cold ionospheric plasma in Titan's magnetotail

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Wei, H Y ^a   Russell, C T ^a   Wahlund, J E ^b   Dougherty, M K ^b   Bertucci, C ^c   Modolo, R ^b   Ma, Y J ^a   Neubauer, F M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; IONOSPHERE; LANGMUIR PROBES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETERS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MOON;

COLD PLASMA; MAGNETOTAIL;

PLASMAS;

IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOTAIL; PLASMA; TITAN;

EID: 39549104522     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030701     Document Type: Article

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