Cosmic rays in the heliosphere

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Jun 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987nascp2464..125w&link_type=abstract

In NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Essays in Space Science p 125-154 (SEE N87-24247 17-88)

Physics

Cosmic Rays, Energetic Particles, Energy Distribution, Heliosphere, Particle Motion, Shock Wave Propagation, Solar Flares, Cerenkov Counters, Energy Spectra, Pioneer 10 Space Probe, Scintillation Counters, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft

Scientific paper

The different types of cosmic ray particles and their role in the heliosphere are briefly described. The rates of various energetic particles were examined as a function of time and used to derive various differential energy gradients. The Pioneer and Voyager cosmic ray observations throughout the heliosphere are indeed giving a perspective on the three-dimensional character and size of the heliosphere. Most clearly the observations are emphasizing the role that transient variations in the outer heliosphere, and most likely the heliospheric boundary shock, play in the 11 year solar cycle modulation of cosmic rays.

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