Sources and losses of energetic protons in Saturn's magnetosphere

Icarus

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 519-525

  Paranicas, C ^a   Mitchell, D G ^a   Krimigis, S M ^a   Hamilton, D C ^b   Roussos, E ^c   Krupp, N ^c   Jones, G H ^d,e   Johnson, R E ^f   Cooper, J F ^g   Armstrong, T P ^h  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h Fundamental Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

magnetosphere; rings; satellites; Satellites; Saturn; surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749088576     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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