The symmetry of the heliospheric current sheet as observed by Ulysses during the fast latitude scan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-248

  Erdos, Géza ^a   Balogh, André ^b  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; SUN; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; MAGNETIC POLARITY;

HELIOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET;

ASTRONOMY; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

CONSTANT MAGNITUDE; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; HELIOSPHERIC CURRENT SHEET; HELIOSPHERIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELD VECTORS; NORTH-SOUTH ASYMMETRY; RADIAL COMPONENT; STANDFORD UNIVERSITY;

EID: 0031996716     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL53699     Document Type: Article

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