On the protection of extrasolar Earth-like planets around K/M stars against galactic cosmic rays

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 526-535

  Griessmeier J M ^a,b   Stadelmann, A ^c   Grenfell, J L ^d,e   Lammer, H ^f   Motschmann, U ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Extrasolar planets; Magnetospheres

Indexed keywords

EID: 58949090463     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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