Atmospheric attenuation length for relativistic solar protons

Details Atmospheric attenuation length for relativistic solar protons Atmospheric attenuation length for relativistic solar protons

May 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20..995a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 10, p. 995-998.

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Atmospheric Attenuation, Relativistic Particles, Solar Protons, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Energetic Particles, Solar Flares

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We compute the mean attenuation length lambda(f) in earth's atmosphere for the protons produced in the solar flare of 29 September, 1989. We use data obtained with three pairs of neutron monitors. The detectors in the pair have very similar values of the geomagnetic vertical cutoff rigidity R(0) and overlapping asymptotic cones of acceptance but they differ in terms of the altitudes of the observing sites. We apply the Wilson et al. (1967) method to compute the values of lambda(f) for the three representative pairs which cover a range of solar proton rigidities. The computed mean values of lambda(f) are significantly larger than the consensus value of (100 +/- 5) g/sq cm reported in the literature. Also, they exhibit a linear correlation with R(0).

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