Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.477..463m&link_type=abstract
In: Proceedings of the Second Solar Cycle and Space Weather Euroconference, 24 - 29 September 2001, Vico Equense, Italy. Editor:
Physics
Cosmic Rays, Solar Corona
Scientific paper
It was recently suggested (Lockwood et al., 2000; 2001) that the cosmic ray intensity in the neutron monitor energy range is linearly related to coronal source flux, and can be reconstructed for 130 years using the estimated long term coronal flux. Moreover, by reversing this relation, they reconstructed the coornal flux on the 500-year scale using the cosmogenic 10Be data as an index of cosmic ray intensity. Here we show that a linear regression is oversimplified and leads to unphysical results on long time scales. In particular, the reconstructed cosmic ray intensity has a steep trend which is four times larger than the allowed upper bound. The reconstructed cosmic ray intensity exceeds the local interstellar cosmic ray flux around 1900. We argue that the unphysical results using a linear assumption are due to the oversimplified approach which does not account for complexity and significant nonlinearity of cosmic ray modulation in the heliosphere. We show also that there is no homogeneous linear relation between coronal source flux and cosmic rays.
Kovaltsov Gennadi A.
Mursula Kalevi
Usoskin Ilya G.
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