Evidence against stellar chromospheric origin of Galactic cosmic rays

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6706, 1998, Pages 50-52

  Westphal, Andrew J ^a   Price, P Buford ^a   Weaver, Benjamin A ^a   Afanasiev, Vladimir G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Genesys Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

EID: 0032487855     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23887     Document Type: Article

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