Enhanced cosmic-ray flux toward ζ Persei inferred from laboratory study of H3–e recombination rate
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*Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Department of Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Gemini Observatory, 670 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Institute of Physics, Świetokrzyska Academy, 25 406 Kielce, Poland Department of Electronics and Vacuum Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague V Holesovickach 2, Prague 8, Czech Republic Department of Physics, SCFAB, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Manne Siegbahn Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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