Observations of the zodiacal light from a very high altitude station: III. The disturbed zodiacal light and corpuscular radiation
Abstract
Photometric observations of the zodiacal light made at Chacaltaya in the Bolivian Andes during 1958 show that there are changes in brightness which are correlated with geomagnetic activity. The changes in the zodiacal light and the surrounding sky during the intense magnetic storm of 1958 July 8 are described. The increase in sky brightness that was then observed is tentatively ascribed to scattering by free electrons in a corpuscular stream, the electron density in the stream being about 300 cm . There was also a corresponding increase in zodiacal light brightness; the hypothesis that this may be attributed to fluorescence of the interplanetary dust on impact with the protons of this corpuscular stream is examined, but found to be inadequate.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1961
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/122.2.143
- Bibcode:
- 1961MNRAS.122..143B