Heating and cooling of protons in the fast solar wind between 0.3 and 1 AU: Helios revisited

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Hellinger, Petr ^a,b   Matteini, Lorenzo ^c   Štverák, Štěpn ^a,b   Trávníček, Pavel M ^a,b,d   Marsch, Eckart ^e  

^a ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

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EID: 80053359074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JA016674     Document Type: Article

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