Thermally driven atmospheric escape: Transition from hydrodynamic to jeans escape

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 729, Issue 2 PART II, 2011, Pages

  Volkov, Alexey N ^a   Johnson, Robert E ^a,b   Tucker, Orenthal J ^a   Erwin, Justin T ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrodynamics; planets and satellites: atmospheres; planets and satellites: individual (Pluto, Titan)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953649200     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/729/2/L24     Document Type: Article

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