Soft X-Ray Pulsations in Solar Flares

Solar Physics

Volumn 290, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3625-3639

  Simoes P J A ^a   Hudson, H S ^a,b   Fletcher, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flares, impulsive phase; Oscillations, solar; X ray bursts, hard; X ray bursts, soft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949103115     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-015-0691-2     Document Type: Article

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