Coronal plumes and the expansion of pressure-balanced structures in the fast solar wind

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A5, 1999, Pages 9947-9961

  Casalbuoni, Sara ^a,b   Del Zanna, Luca ^a,c   Habbal, Shadia R ^d   Velli, Marco ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000397327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja900047     Document Type: Article

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