Modeling the young Sun's solar wind and its interaction with Earth's paleomagnetosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sterenborg, M Glenn ^a   Cohen, O ^b   Drake, J J ^b   Gombosi, T I ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 79551657473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016036     Document Type: Article

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