The genesis solar wind concentrator: Flight and post-flight conditions and modeling of instrumental fractionation

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 175, Issue 1-4, 2013, Pages 93-124

  Wiens, Roger C ^a   Reisenfeld, Daniel B ^b   Olinger, Chad ^a   Wurz, Peter ^c   Heber, Veronika S ^d   Burnett, Donald S ^e  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition; Cosmochemistry; Genesis; Solar; Solar nebula; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

COSMOCHEMISTRY; FRACTIONATION PATTERNS; GENESIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; OXYGEN AND NITROGENS; SOLAR; SOLAR NEBULA;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; FRACTIONATION; INSTRUMENTS; ISOTOPES; LITHIUM; NEON; SILICON; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLAR WIND;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 84879234168     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-013-9961-1     Document Type: Article

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