Kinetic energy distributions and line profile measurements of dissociation products of water upon electron impact

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 109, Issue A9, 2004, Pages

  Makarov, Oleg P ^a,d   Ajello, Joseph M ^a   Vattipalle, Prahlad ^a   Kanik, Isik ^a   Festou, M C ^b   Bhardwaj, Anil ^c,e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^c INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Cross sections; Electron collisions; Ultraviolet spectroscopy; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749120787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009353     Document Type: Article

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