Variable terrestrial particle environments during the galactic orbit of the sun

Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 259-279

  Fahr, Hans J ^a   Fichtner, Horst ^b   Scherer, Klaus ^a   Stawicki, Olaf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

anomalous cosmic rays; dynamic heliosphere; energetic neutral atoms; Pick up ions

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349200562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4557-3_9     Document Type: Chapter

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