Ion distributions of 14 amu pickup ions associated with Titan's plasma interaction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Ledvina, Stephen A ^a   Brecht, Stephen H ^b   Luhmann, Janet G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bay Area Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

2152 Interplanetary physics: Pickup ions; 2459 Ionosphere: Planetary ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026, 6027, 6028); 2732 Magnetospheric physics: Magnetosphere interactions with satellites and rings; 2780 Magnetospheric physics: Solar wind interactions with unmagnetized bodies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOSPHERE; NITROGEN; PLASMA DENSITY; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; SPECTROMETERS; WIND; IONOSPHERE; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; NITROGEN PLASMA; PICKUPS; PLANETS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SOLAR WIND;

CASSINI MISSION; ION DISTRIBUTIONS; SOLAR WIND;

IONOSPHERE; IONS;

IONOSPHERE; TITAN;

CASSINI MISSION; HYBRID SIMULATION; ION DISTRIBUTIONS; ION KINETIC ENERGY; ION SPECTROMETERS; PICK-UP IONS;

EID: 9744222553     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019861     Document Type: Article

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