Observations of reconnection exhausts associated with large-scale current sheets within a complex ICME at 1 AU

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Xu, X ^a,b   Wei, F ^a   Feng, X ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 79958037606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016159     Document Type: Article

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