Limitations on suprathermal tails of electrons in the lower solar corona

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 2785-2788

  Ko, Y K ^a,b   Fisk, L A ^a   Gloeckler, G ^a,b   Geiss, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR WIND; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; IONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND;

CHARGE STATE; MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; SOLAR CORONA; SOLAR-WIND IONS; SUPRATHERMAL TAIL; ULYSSES;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; GEOPHYSICS;

MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR CORONA; SOLAR WIND IONS; SUPRATHERMAL TAILS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRONS;

EID: 0030269328     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02449     Document Type: Article

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