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Aug 1975
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975icrc....2..831c&link_type=abstract
In: International Cosmic Ray Conference, 14th, Munich, West Germany, August 15-29, 1975, Conference Papers. Volume 2. (A76-26851
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Energy Spectra, Heavy Nuclei, Ion Concentration, Ion Probes, Particle Acceleration, Skylab Program, Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetically Trapped Particles, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Solar Wind
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Lexan track detectors with large collecting power were exposed inside and outside Skylab during late 1973 and early 1974. Steeply falling energy spectra of nuclei with Z greater than or equal to 8 and energies between 10 and 40 MeV were observed at intensities much higher than those observed outside the magnetosphere. Four possible sources (solar flare particles; low-energy cosmic rays; the anomalous component of low-energy cosmic rays; particles trapped in the inner Van Allen belt) are examined using Skylab particle flux data outside the magnetosphere and other measurements. The composition is found to be most consistent with that of the solar corona. It is suggested that heavy solar wind ions enter the magnetosphere, are accelerated, and populate the inner radiation belt.
Buford Price P.
Chan J. H.
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