Characteristics of charged dust inferred from the Cassini RPWS measurements in the vicinity of Enceladus

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 57, Issue 14-15, 2009, Pages 1807-1812

  Yaroshenko, V V ^a   Ratynskaia, S ^b   Olson, J ^b   Brenning, N ^b   Wahlund, J E ^c   Morooka, M ^c   Kurth, W S ^d   Gurnett, D A ^d   Morfill, G E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassini; Dust size distribution; Dusty plasma; E ring; Saturn moons

Indexed keywords

CASSINI; CHARGED DUST; CHARGED DUST PARTICLES; DUST DENSITY; DUST SIZE DISTRIBUTION; DUST STRUCTURE; DUSTY PLASMA; DUSTY PLASMAS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; ELECTRON DEPLETION; ENCELADUS; IMPACT DATA; LENGTH SCALE; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; NUMBER DENSITY; POWER LAW; RADIAL DISTANCE; RADIO AND PLASMA WAVE SCIENCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMICRON-SIZED PARTICLES;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; METEOR IMPACTS; PLASMA THEORY; PLASMA WAVES; SEMICONDUCTOR PLASMAS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

DUST;

EID: 70450222133     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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