Quiescent current sheets in the solar wind and origins of slow wind

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Suess, S T ^a,d   Ko, Y K ^b   Von Steiger, R ^c   Moore, R L ^a,d  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 67650162514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JA013704     Document Type: Article

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