From solar nanoflares to stellar giant flares: Scaling laws and non-implications for coronal heating

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1867-1875

  Aschwanden, Markus J ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronal heating; Stars: flares; Sun: flares

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CORRELATION; SCALING LAWS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE RESEARCH; STARS;

CORONAL HEATING; SOLAR NANOFLARES; STARS: FLARES; SUN: FLARES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 34447259115     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.03.050     Document Type: Article

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