Non-LTE radiative transfer for sub-millimeter water lines in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Icarus

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 721-731

  Lee, Seungwon ^a   Von Allmen, Paul ^a   Kamp, Lucas ^a   Gulkis, Samuel ^a   Davidsson, Björn ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comets, coma; Comets, composition; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155161885     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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