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Gravito-Magnetic Explanation of the Temperature of Stellar Coronae and of Planetary van Allen Belts

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Charged particles spiralling along magnetic field lines surpass larger altitude distances in the mean time between two subsequent collisions if they spiral towards levels of smaller pitch angles i. (Then the velocity component parallel to the magnetic field grows: vil~ cos i)

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Woyk, E. (1982). Gravito-Magnetic Explanation of the Temperature of Stellar Coronae and of Planetary van Allen Belts. In: Fricke, W., Teleki, G. (eds) Sun and Planetary System. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7846-1_42

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