The State of Self-organized Criticality of the Sun during the Last Three Solar Cycles. II. Theoretical Model

Solar Physics

Volumn 274, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 119-129

  Aschwanden, Markus J ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Solar cycle; Sun: flares; Sun: hard X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855328308     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-011-9835-1     Document Type: Article

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