Electron transport and precipitation at Mercury during the MESSENGER flybys: Implications for electron-stimulated desorption

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2026-2036

  Schriver, David ^a   Trávníček, Pavel ^c,d   Ashour Abdalla, Maha ^a,b   Richard, Robert L ^a   Hellinger, Petr ^d   Slavin, James A ^e   Anderson, Brian J ^f   Baker, Daniel N ^g   Benna, Mehdi ^e   Boardsen, Scott A ^e   Gold, Robert E ^f   Ho, George C ^f   Korth, Haje ^f   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^f,h   McClintock, William E ^g   McLain, Jason L ⁱ   Orlando, Thomas M ⁱ   Sarantos, Menelaos ^f   Sprague, Ann L ^j   Starr, Richard D ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

ⁱ GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^k CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Electron transport; Electron stimulated desorption; Magnetosphere; Mercury; MESSENGER; Numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TRAJECTORIES; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON STIMULATED DESORPTION; ELECTRON TRAJECTORIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGIZATION; ENERGY OF ELECTRON; ENTRY REGION; HIGH ENERGY; HYBRID SIMULATION; IMF ORIENTATION; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; ION PRODUCTION; ION SPUTTERING; ION YIELDS; MESSENGER; NON-ADIABATIC; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PARAMETER CONDITIONS; PLANETARY SURFACES; SOLAR WIND SPEED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESORPTION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL); SOLAR WIND; SPUTTERING; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TRAJECTORIES;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 82455209034     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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