An unusual coronal mass ejection: First Solar Wind Electron, Proton, Alpha Monitor (SWEPAM) results from the Advanced Composition Explorer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4289-4292

  McComas, D J ^a   Bame, S J ^a   Barker, P L ^a   Delapp, D M ^a   Feldman, W C ^a   Gosling, J T ^a   Santiago, E ^a   Skoug, R M ^a   Tokar, R L ^a   Riley, P ^b   Phillips, J L ^c   Griffee, J W ^d  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SciberNet Inc   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; IONIZING RADIATION; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA FLOW; PROTONS; TEMPERATURE; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; HEAVY IONS; IONIZATION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR WIND;

ADVANCED COMPOSITION EXPLORER SPACECRAFT; CORONAL MASS EJECTION; HALO ELECTRONS; SOLAR WIND; SOLAR WIND ELECTRON PROTON ALPHA MONITOR; ABUNDANCE RATIOS; ADVANCED COMPOSITION; CORONAL TEMPERATURES; FIRST IONIZATION POTENTIALS; IONIZATION STATE; SCIENTIFIC RESULTS;

SPACE RESEARCH; IONIZATION POTENTIAL;

EJECTA;

EID: 0033489833     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900174     Document Type: Article

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