Bi-directional plasma jets produced by magnetic reconnection on the Sun

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6627, 1997, Pages 811-813

  Innes, D E ^a   Inhester, B ^a   Axford, W I ^a   Wilhelm, K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ION TRANSPORT; KINETICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

EID: 0030931207     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386811a0     Document Type: Article

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