The width of a solar coronal mass ejection and the source of the driving magnetic explosion: A test of the standard scenario for CME production

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 668, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1221-1231

  Moore, Ronald L ^a   Sterling, Alphonse C ^a   Suess, Steven T ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Sun: corona; Sun: Coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flares; Sun: magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949097486     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/521215     Document Type: Article

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