Signatures of interchange reconnection: STEREO, ACE and Hinode observations combined

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3883-3897

  Baker, D ^a   Rouillard, A P ^b,c   Van Driel Gesztelyi, L ^a,d,e   Demoulin P ^d   Harra, L K ^a   Lavraud, B ^f,g   Davies, J A ^c   Opitz, A ^f,g   Luhmann, J G ^h   Sauvaud, J A ^f,g   Galvin, A B ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^f IRAP   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

And astronomy (Flares and mass ejections); Astrophysics; Interplanetary physics (Sources of the solar wind); Solar physics; Space plasma physics (Magnetic reconnection)

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; PLASMA; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

ANEMONE;

EID: 72449162818     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-27-3883-2009     Document Type: Article

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