Multispacecraft recovery of a magnetic cloud and its origin from magnetic reconnection on the Sun

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Mostl C ^b,f   Farrugia, C J ^c   Miklenic, C ^f   Temmer, M ^b   Galvin, A B ^c   Luhmann, J G ^d   Kilpua, E K J ^a,d   Leitner, M ^e   Nieves Chinchilla, T ^g   Veronig, A ^b   Biernat, H K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^f Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 67349235477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013657     Document Type: Article

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