Initial Venus Express magnetic field observations of the Venus bow shock location at solar minimum

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 785-789

  Zhang, T L ^a,g   Delva, M ^a   Baumjohann, W ^a   Volwerk, M ^a   Russell, C T ^b   Barabash, S ^c   Balikhin, M ^d   Pope, S ^d   Glassmeier, K H ^e   Kudela, K ^f   Wang, C ^g   Voros Z ^a   Zambelli, W ^a  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Bow shock; Bow shock model; Magnetic cleanliness; Magnetometer; Solar minimum; Venus Express

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACH NUMBER; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT;

BOW SHOCK MODELS; MAGNETICALLY CLEAN SPACECRAFTS; SOLAR MINIMUM; VENUS BOW SHOCK; VENUS EXPRESS; ZENITH ANGLE;

MAGNETOMETERS;

EID: 42549140858     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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