Quasi-trapped ion and electron populations at Mercury

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Schriver, David ^a,b   Trvníek, Pavel M ^c,d   Anderson, Brian J ^e   Ashour Abdalla, Maha ^a,b   Baker, Daniel N ^f   Benna, Mehda ^g   Boardsen, Scott A ^g   Gold, Robert E ^e   Hellinger, Petr ^d   Ho, George C ^e   Korth, Haje ^e   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^e,h   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^e   Raines, Jim M ⁱ   Richard, Robert L ^a,b   Slavin, James A ⁱ   Solomon, Sean C ^j   Starr, Richard D ^k   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^k CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPLASMA; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (METAL);

ANISOTROPIC DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON POPULATION; ION-CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY; LOCAL TIME; MAGNETIC PRESSURE; MESSENGER SPACECRAFT; PARTICLE POPULATION; RADIAL DISTANCE; THERMAL PRESSURE;

IONS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOSPHERE; MERCURY (PLANET); OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRESSURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84055191547     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049629     Document Type: Article

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