A reconnecting current sheet imaged in a solar flare

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 723, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Rui ^a   Lee, Jeongwoo ^a   Wang, Tongjiang ^b   Stenborg, Guillermo ^c   Liu, Chang ^a   Wang, Haimin ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c INTERFEROMETRICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Sun: corona; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flare

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649296713     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/723/1/L28     Document Type: Article

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