Plasma flows in the heliosheath

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Richardson, J D ^a   Stone, E C ^b   Kasper, J C ^c   Belcher, J W ^a   Decker, R B ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SPEED; FLOW ANGLES; FLOW DIRECTION; HELIOSHEATH; HELIOSPHERE; NORMAL DIRECTION; PERIODIC VARIATION; PLASMA MEASUREMENT; QUASIPERIODIC OSCILLATIONS; RADIAL FLOW SPEED; TERMINATION SHOCKS;

PLASMAS;

FLOW VELOCITY; PLASMA; RADIAL FLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 67651083267     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038421     Document Type: Article

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