Acceleration of coronal mass ejections

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 108, Issue A11, 2003, Pages

  Chen, James ^a   Krall, Jonathan ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cme acceleration; Cme initiation; Flux rope eruption; Scaling law; Solar and stellar eruptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905349292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JA009849     Document Type: Article

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