Voyager measurements of the isotopic composition of cosmic-ray aluminum and implications for the propagation of cosmic rays

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Jul 1994

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The Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters, vol. 430, no. 1, p. L69-L72

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Abundance, Aluminum Isotopes, Beryllium Isotopes, Cosmic Rays, Interstellar Matter, Energy Distribution, Mass Distribution, Mass Ratios, Mass Spectrometers, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft

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We report a new measurement of the cosmic-ray isotopic composition of aluminum in the low-energy range form 75 to 206 MeV per nucleon.This measurement was made using the high-energy telescope of the CRS experiment on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft during the time period from 1977 to 1993 with an average solar modulation level about 497 MV, roughly the same as at Earth near sunspot minimum. We obtain approximately 430 Al events of which approximately 35 are Al-26 and 395 are Al-27. The Al isotopes were separated with an average mass resolution sigma of 0.35 amu. Our interpretation of the isotopic composition of cosmic-ray aluminum is based on a standard Leaky-Box model for the interstellar propagation of cosmic-ray nuclei using the latest cross sections of the New Mexico-Saclay collaboration as well as a disk-halo diffusion model. From our observed ratio Al-26/Al-27 of 8.3 +/- 2.4 % we deduce an average interstellar density of about 0.52 (+0.26, -0.2) atoms per cu cm. This density is larger than the value of 0.28 (+0.14, -0.11) atoms per cu cm we found from an analysis of the observed abundance of the longer lived Be-10 made using data from the Voyager detectors over almost the same time interval and using essentially the same propagation program.

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