Short-term variations in the galactic environment of the sun

Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 133-193

  Frisch, Priscilla C ^a   Slavin, Jonathan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilibrium Models; Heliosphere; Interstellar Matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849053532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4557-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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