Modelling heliospheric current sheet drift in stochastic cosmic ray transport models

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 339, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-236

  Strauss, R D ^a   Potgieter, M S ^a   Busching I ^a,b   Kopp, A ^a,c  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Current sheet; Drifts; Heliosphere; Stochastic differential equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860567857     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: 1572946X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-012-1003-z     Document Type: Article

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