Terrestrial consequences of spectral and temporal variability in ionizing photon events

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 654, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 373-384

  Ejzak, Larissa M ^a,b   Melott, Adrian L ^a   Medvedev, Mikhail V ^a   Thomas, Brian C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c WASHBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846517636     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509106     Document Type: Article

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