The isotopes of hydrogen and helium in the Galactic cosmic radiation - Their source abundances and interstellar propagation

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Dec 1986

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 311, Dec. 1, 1986, p. 425-436.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Galactic Cosmic Rays, Helium Isotopes, Hydrogen Isotopes, Interstellar Radiation, Abundance, Energy Spectra, Neutron Counters

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A self-consistent model describing the interstellar propagation of Galactic cosmic radiation is developed using low-energy measurements and calculations of the effects of interstellar propagation and solar modulation. The source ratio H-1/He-4 at constant energy per nucleon is determined to be 12.2 + or - 1.5, and the mean path length for an exponential path length weighting function required to account for the data is 7.2 + or - 1.0 g/sq cm. The measured H-2/He-4 and He-3/He-4 ratios do not vary by more than about 30 percent over the solar cycle. The behavior of the ratios during the solar cycle reflects the energy dependence of the local interstellar ratios, and leads to an energy dependence of the mean path length below 1 GeV per nucleon weaker than that inferred from boron/carbon. The source ratio H-1/He-4 inferred from the low-energy data is consistent both with the value inferred from high-energy cosmic ray data using a model of rigidity-dependent confinement and with the solar system abundance ratio.

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