Comment on "Model of ionic charge states of impulsive solar energetic particles in solar flares" by M. Dolores Rodríguez-Frías, Luis del Peral, and Jorge Pérez-Peraza

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 107, Issue A10, 2002, Pages

  Kovaltsov, Gennadi A ^a,b   Kartavykh, Yulia Y ^b   Kocharov, Leon ^a   Ostryakov, Valéry M ^b,c   Torsti, Jarmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ion acceleration; Ionic charge; Solar energetic particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749124560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JA009173     Document Type: Review

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