Evidence in support of the "nanoflare" picture of coronal heating from SUMER data

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 502, Issue 2 PART 1, 1998, Pages 981-996

  Judge, P G ^a   Hansteen, V ^b   Wikstol O ^b   Wilhelm, K ^c   Schuhle U ^c   Moran, T ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Sun: chromosphere; Sun: corona; Sun: flares; Sun: transition region

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042353754     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/305915     Document Type: Article

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