On the distribution of pickup ions as observed by the Vega spacecraft at comet Halley

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1565-1568

  Tatrallyay M ^a   Verigin, M I ^b   Szego, K ^a   Gombosi, T I ^c   Hansen, K C ^c   Schwingenschuh, K ^d   Delva, M ^d   Apathy I ^e   Remizov, A P ^b   Szemerey, T ^e  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^e KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; IONS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMAS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

COMET HALLEY; PLASMA DISTRIBUTION; VEGA SPACECRAFT;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 6744229774     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00102-2     Document Type: Article

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