SMESE: A SMall Explorer for Solar Eruptions

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1787-1801

  Vial, J C ^a   Auchere F ^a   Chang, J ^b   Fang, C ^c   Gan, W Q ^b   Klein, K L ^d   Prado, J Y ^e   Trottet, G ^d   Wang, C ^f   Yan, Y H ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e CNES   (France)

^f CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^g CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Coronal mass ejections; Microsatellite; Solar flares

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; TELESCOPES;

CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS; ERUPTIONS; MICROSATELLITES; SOLAR FLARES;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 36148931387     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.08.020     Document Type: Article

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