Multispacecraft modeling of the flux rope structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections: Cylindrically symmetric versus nonsymmetric topologies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 106, Issue A6, 2001, Pages 10581-10596

  Mulligan, T ^a   Russell, C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 39449138814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000ja900170     Document Type: Article

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