Evidence for a solar coronal thick-target hard X-ray source observed by RHESSI

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1683-1689

  Veronig, Astrid M ^a   Brown, John C ^b   Bone, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy transport; Solar flares; Sun; X rays

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; EVAPORATION; IMAGE SENSORS; SPACE RESEARCH; SUN; X RAYS;

ENERGY TRANSPORTS; HARD X-RAY (HXR); RHESSI; SOLAR FLARES;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 24944571695     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.01.065     Document Type: Article

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