Detection of 0.5-15 GeV solar protons on 29 September 1989 at Australian stations

Details Detection of 0.5-15 GeV solar protons on 29 September 1989 at Australian stations Detection of 0.5-15 GeV solar protons on 29 September 1989 at Australian stations

Apr 1991

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Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 18, April 1991, p. 737-740. Research supported by Australian Research Counci

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Cosmic Rays, Particle Acceleration, Particle Energy, Radiation Counters, Solar Protons, Australia, Power Spectra, Relativistic Particles, Solar Observatories

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A major cosmic ray ground-level enhancement, the largest in 33 years, occurred on September 29, 1989 during which intensity enhancements at Australian observatories ranged up to a maximum of 344 percent at Mt. Wellington. The Darwin neutron monitor (cutoff rigidity 14.1 GV) recorded an approximate 13 percent increase in the five-minute counting rate indicating that solar particles up to at least 15 GeV must have been present. Surface muon detectors at Hobart and Mawson recorded increased fluxes, but the event was not recorded by underground muon detectors at either station. Preliminary analysis of the solar particle flux during the initial phase of the event shows a hard spectrum approximated equally well by an exponential spectra with a P(o) of 2.0 GV or by a modified power law spectra of exponent about 2.9. Particles arriving at the detectors from nonvertical directions make a significant contribution to the total increase recorded at mid- and low-latitude stations.

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