Self-consistent model of the solar wind interaction with three-component circumsolar interstellar cloud: Mutual influence of thermal plasma, galactic cosmic rays, and H atoms

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 105, Issue A3, 2000, Pages 5167-5177

  Myasnikov, Artyom V ^a   Alexashov, Dmitrii B ^a   Izmodenov, Vladislav V ^b,c   Chalov, Sergei V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PROBLEMS IN MECHANICS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

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EID: 39449128788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999ja000166     Document Type: Article

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