First determination of the true mass of coronal mass ejections: A novel approach to using the two stereo viewpoints

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 698, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 852-858

  Colaninno, Robin C ^a   Vourlidas, Angelos ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: data analysis; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Techniques: image processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 66649116304     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/852     Document Type: Article

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