Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
4 pages, 2 figures, 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference (Lodz, Poland), 2009
Scientific paper
The sidereal anisotropy of galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity observed with the Tibet Air Shower (AS) experiment still awaits theoretical interpretation. The observed global feature of the anisotropy is well reproduced by a superposition of the bi-directional and uni-directional flows (BDF and UDF, respectively) of GCRs. If the orientation of the deduced BDF represents the orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field (LISMF), as indicated by best-fitting a model to the data, the UDF deviating from the BDF orientation implies a significant contribution from the streaming perpendicular to the LISMF. This perpendicular streaming is probably due to the drift anisotropy, because the contribution from the perpendicular diffusion is expected to be much smaller than the drift effect. The large amplitude deduced for the UDF indicates a large spatial gradient of the GCR density. We suggest that such a density gradient can be expected at the heliosphere sitting close to the boundary of the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), if the LIC is expanding. The spatial distribution of GCR density in the LIC reaches a stationary state because of the balance between the inward cross-field diffusion and the adiabatic cooling due to the expansion. We derive the steady-state distribution of GCR density in the LIC based on radial transport of GCRs in a spherical LIC expanding at a constant rate. By comparing the expected gradient with the observation by Tibet experiment, we estimate the perpendicular diffusion coefficient of multi-TeV GCRs in the local interstellar space.
Kota József
Mizoguchi Yoshihiro
Munakata Koji
Takita Maika
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