Absence of energetic particle effects associated with magnetic reconnection exhausts in the solar wind

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Gosling, Jack T ^a   Skoug, R M ^a   Haggerty, D K ^b   McComas, D J ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTRONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA THEORY; PROTONS; SPACE RESEARCH;

ENERGETIC PARTICLE EFFECTS; INTERPLANETARY CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; SOLAR WIND;

WIND;

SOLAR WIND;

EID: 25444435208     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023357     Document Type: Article

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