Direct evidence of the interstellar gas flow velocity in the pickup ion cut-off as observed with SOHO CELIAS CTOF

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3181-3184

  Mobius E ^a   Litvinenko, Y ^a   Gruinwaldt H ^b   Aellig, M R ^c   Bogdanov, A ^d   Ipavich, F M ^e   Bochsler, P ^c   Hilchenbach, M ^b   Judge, D ^f   Klecker, B ^d   Lee, M A ^a   Ogawa, H ^f  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION;

INTERSTELLAR GAS FLOW; PICKUP IONS; SOLAR WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION;

GAS FLOW;

EID: 0343986358     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL003644     Document Type: Article

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