Shadowing of Cosmic Rays by the Sun near Maximum or at the Declining Phase of Solar Activity

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Jun 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996apj...464..954a&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal v.464, p.954

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

12

Ism: Cosmic Rays, Sun: Solar-Terrestrial Relations, Sun: Solar Wind, Magnetic Fields

Scientific paper

The shadows of the Sun and Moon have been detected in the 10 TeV cosmic-ray flux by the Tibet air shower array at an altitude of 4300 m above sea level. The observation covers the period 1990 June- 1993 October, which almost coincides with a near-maximum and decreasing phase of the latest solar activity cycle. Using the data obtained in this period, we examined a yearly variation of the Sun's shadow, and found for the first time that the position of the Sun's shadow changed considerably every year with the phase of the solar activity. A different variation of the Sun's shadow was also found between the "away" and "toward" sectors of the interplanetary magnetic field. These results seem to suggest a causal relation between the shadow's movement and the changing inclination of the heliospheric current sheet of the large-scale magnetic field. Further observation with higher statistics will provide a new clue to obtain direct information on the relation between a time variation of the large-scale structure of the solar and interplanetary magnetic fields and the phase of the solar activity cycle.

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