Interplanetary Signatures of Unipolar Streamers and the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind

Solar Physics

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 355-373

  Riley, P ^a   Luhmann, J G ^b  

^a PREDICTIVE SCIENCE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interplanetary medium; Solar wind; Sun: corona, evolution, magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858001441     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-011-9909-0     Document Type: Article

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