Short-term variations of Mercury's Na exosphere observed with very high spectral resolution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Leblanc, F ^a   Doressoundiram, A ^b,i   Schneider, N ^c   Massetti, S ^d   Wedlund, M ^a   Ariste, A López ^e   Barbieri, C ^f   Mangano, V ^d   Cremonese, G ^g,h  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d INAF   (Italy)

^e CNRS   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; DOPPLER SHIFTS; DOPPLER WIDTH; EMISSION LINES; EMISSION PEAKS; FIELD OF VIEWS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROUND BASED OBSERVATORIES; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MERCURY'S EXOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RESOLVING POWER; SHORT-TERM VARIATIONS; SODIUM ATOM; SOLAR TELESCOPE; TIME VARIATIONS;

ATMOSPHERICS; ATOMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MERCURY (METAL); SODIUM; SOLAR ENERGY; TELESCOPES;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

MAGNETIC FIELD; MERCURY (PLANET); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SODIUM; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 67449113237     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038089     Document Type: Article

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