Kinematics of coronal mass ejections between 2 and 30 solar radii: What can be learned about forces governing the eruption?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 423, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 717-728

  Vrsnak B ^a   Ruzdjak D ^a   Sudar, D ^a   Gopalswamy, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Interplanetary medium; Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: solar wind; Sun: solar terrestrial relations

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; AERODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; VELOCITY CONTROL;

CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS (CME); INTERPLANETARY MEDIUM; SOLAR WIND; SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL RELATIONS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 4043068509     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20047169     Document Type: Article

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