The helicial flux rope structure of solar filaments

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1895-1903

  Rust, D M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOMETERS; SPACECRAFT; SUN;

SOLAR FILAMENTS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0345790412     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)90623-5     Document Type: Article

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