Solar wind radial and latitudinal structure: Electron density and core temperature from Ulysses thermal noise spectroscopy

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 103, Issue A2, 1998, Pages 1969-1979

  Issautier, Karine ^a   Meyer Vernet, Nicole ^a   Moncuquet, Michel ^a   Hoang, Sang ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

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