Enhancements of energetic particles near the heliospheric termination shock

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6962, 2003, Pages 48-51

  McDonald, Frank B ^a   Stone, Edward C ^c   Cummings, Alan C ^c   Heikkila, Bryant ^b   Lal, Nand ^b   Webber, William R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COSMIC RAYS; ELECTRONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IONS; SHOCK WAVES; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE FLIGHT; SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; WIND;

HELIOSPHERES; SOLAR WINDS;

SPACE SHUTTLES;

PROTON;

SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATOMIC PARTICLE; COSMOS; ELECTRON; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0242460523     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02066     Document Type: Article

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