Using synthetic emission images to constrain heating parameters

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 575, 2004, Pages 306-311

  Lundquist, L L ^a   Fisher, G H ^a   McTiernan, J M ^a   Régnier, Stephane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronal heating; Coronal loops; Heating scaling laws

Indexed keywords

CORONAL HEATING; CORONAL LOOPS; HEATING SCALING LAWS; HEATING THEORIS;

DATA REDUCTION; HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VECTORS; X RAYS;

SUN;

EID: 22144480309     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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