Cool heliosheath plasma and deceleration of the upstream solar wind at the termination shock

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7200, 2008, Pages 63-66

  Richardson, John D ^a,b   Kasper, Justin C ^c   Wang, Chi ^b   Belcher, John W ^a   Lazarus, Alan J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGETICS; PLASMA; SOLAR WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR MONITORING; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FLOW RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WIND;

EID: 46449135132     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07024     Document Type: Article

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