Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsh41a1910m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SH41A-1910
Physics
Plasma Physics
[7514] Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy / Energetic Particles, [7859] Space Plasma Physics / Transport Processes
Scientific paper
We report new measurements of solar energetic particle and galactic cosmic ray anisotropies at the Moon from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument on board LRO is a double-ended particle telescope with multiple silicon detectors and inert tissue-equivalent plastic for the analysis of the lunar radiation environment. CRaTER has elemental resolution above ~ 10 MeV/nucleon (11-115 MeV for Z=1; 45-450 MeV/nucleon for Z=26) with 0.57 cm2sr geometry factor. LRO affords us the opportunity to measure the interplanetary anisotropies of both galactic and solar energetic particles from a unique vantage point, namely within and perpendicular to the ecliptic plane using a solid and airless body to help define the particle arrival geometry. At the meeting we will show analysis of the solar particle anisotropies in the low-intensity SEP events that have occurred in the run-up to solar maximum of solar cycle 24. We will also discuss preliminary measurements of the potentially interesting low-energy galactic cosmic ray anisotropy.
Bernard Blake J.
Case Anthony W.
Golightly Michael J.
Kasper Justin Christophe
Looper Mark Dixon
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