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- 1 2 AAS Names 23 New Fellows for 2022, American Astronomical Society, January 5, 2022, retrieved 2022-04-21
- ↑ Frazier, Sarah (January 19, 2021), Exploring the Solar Wind With A New View of Small Sun Structures, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, retrieved 2022-04-21
