Ionization of extrasolar giant planet atmospheres

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 722, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 178-187

  Koskinen, Tommi T ^a,c   Cho, James Y K ^b,d   Achilleos, Nicholas ^c   Aylward, Alan D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Planets and satellites: General; Plasmas; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149351871     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/178     Document Type: Article

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