Study of the latitudinal dependence of H I Lyman α and O VI emission in the solar corona: Evidence for the superradial geometry of the outflow in the polar coronal holes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 104, Issue A5, 1999, Pages 9791-9799

  Dobrzycka, Danuta ^a,b   Cranmer, Steven R ^a   Panasyuk, Alexander V ^a   Strachan, Leonard ^a   Kohl, John L ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

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EID: 0038919604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998ja900129     Document Type: Article

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