Neon-20, Oxygen-16, and Helium-4 densities, temperatures, and suprathermal tails in the solar wind determined with WIND/MASS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1191-1194

  Collier, Michael R ^a   Hamilton, D C ^a   Gloeckler, G ^a   Bochsler, P ^b   Sheldon, R B ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF GASES; HELIUM; NEON; OXYGEN; SPEED; TEMPERATURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; WIND;

SOLAR WIND; SUPRATHERMAL TAILS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; SOLAR WIND;

DENSITY RATIO; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; HELIUM 4; HIGH ENERGY TAILS; SOLAR WIND SPEED; SUPRATHERMAL TAIL; TEMPERATURE RATIO; WIND SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0030141732     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00621     Document Type: Article

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