Oxygen abundance in coronal streamers during solar minimum

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-145

  Marocchi, D ^a   Antonucci, E ^b   Giordano, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interplanetary physics (solar wind plasma); Solar physics, astrophysics and astronomy (corona and transition region; ultraviolet emissions)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000330479     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-19-135-2001     Document Type: Article

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