Detection of m/q = 2 pickup ions in the plasma environment of the Moon: The trace of exospheric H2+

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Wang, X D ^a,b   Zong, Q G ^c   Wang, J S ^d   Cui, J ^a   Reme H ^e   Dandouras, I ^e   Aoustin, C ^e   Tan, X ^a   Shen, J ^a   Ren, X ^a   Liu, J J ^a   Zuo, W ^a   Su, Y ^a   Wen, W B ^a   Wang, F ^a   Fu, Q ^a   Mu, L L ^a   Wang, X Q ^a   Geng, L ^a   Zhang, Z B ^a   Liu, J Z ^a   Zhang, H B ^a   Li, C L ^a   Ouyang, Z Y ^a   more..

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d National Center for Space Weather   (China)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; IONS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MOON; ORBITS; PICKUPS; SOLAR WIND;

CONTINUOUS FLUX; ION DETECTORS; LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM; LUNAR EXOSPHERES; PITCH ANGLE DISTRIBUTION; PLASMA ENVIRONMENTS; SPACE DISTRIBUTION; WIND HYDROGENS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; MOON; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLASMA; SOLAR SYSTEM; SOLAR WIND; SPACECRAFT; WIND FORCING;

HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 1; SWIDA;

EID: 79960544207     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047488     Document Type: Article

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