Solar Wind: Energetic Particles
Abstract
The energetic particle populations that we observe in the SOLAR WIND are accelerated in a variety of local and distant sources. We distinguish different populations by their temporal, spatial and angular distributions, energy spectra, abundances and ionization states. They tell us the physics of acceleration mechanisms and the properties of remote sites that are otherwise invisible or inaccessibl...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- January 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/2312
- Bibcode:
- 2002eaa..bookE2312R
- Keywords:
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- Sun;
- Solar Heliosphere and Cosmic Rays