Long-lived giant cells detected at the surface of the Sun

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6694, 1998, Pages 653-655

  Beck, J G ^a   Duvall Jr , T L ^b   Scherrer, P H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GIANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUN; VELOCITY;

EID: 0032514399     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29245     Document Type: Article

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