Toward a self-consistent treatment of the cyclotron wave heating and acceleration of the solar wind plasma

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A2, 2003, Pages

  Laitinen, T ^a,b   Fichtner, H ^b   Vainio, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coronal holes; Cyclotron heating; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345965680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JA009479     Document Type: Article

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