Measurement of the energy release rate and the reconnection rate in solar flares

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 632, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 1184-1195

  Isobe, Hiroaki ^a,b   Takasaki, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Shibata, Kazunari ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sun: flares; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: X rays, gamma rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444433375     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/444490     Document Type: Article

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