Transient auroral features at Saturn: Signatures of energetic particle injections in the magnetosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Radioti, A ^a   Grodent, D ^a   Gerard J C ^a   Roussos, E ^b   Paranicas, C ^c   Bonfond, B ^a   Mitchell, D G ^c   Krupp, N ^b   Krimigis, S ^c,d   Clarke, J T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^e Boston University   (United States)

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EID: 67649111384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013632     Document Type: Article

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