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Streaming of Solar Cosmic Rays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

K. G. McCracken
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Adelaide
I. D. Palmer
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Adelaide

Extract

A comprehensive study of the anisotropy (i.e. streaming) of solar cosmic rays at energies ~10 MeV revealed two distinct types (McCracken). The first occurs during onset phase of the event, is large (> 20%), and is really the flow of cosmic rays along lines of force driven by a density gradient. The second describes the decay of the event, is small (10%), and indicates a flow radially away from the Sun.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1969

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