Shallow mixing in the solar photosphere inferred from revised beryllium abundances

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6678, 1998, Pages 791-793

  Balachandran, Suchitra C ^a   Bell, Roger A ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 0032560196     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33879     Document Type: Article

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