Study of cosmic radiation near the Earth's north geomagnetic pole
Abstract
The nucleonic intensity observations at Thule, Greenland have established an apparently longer data base than any other station in either polar cap. During the brief period covered by this report, significant progress has been made toward understanding three important phenomena: (1) the origin of transient cosmic ray intensity variation; and (2) the mechanism that is responsible for producing north-south anisotropy and acceleration of relativistic cosmic rays between converging interplanetary shock waves. These results are described in detail.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- September 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976STIN...7724051P
- Keywords:
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- Arctic Regions;
- Cosmic Rays;
- Anisotropy;
- Greenland;
- Interplanetary Space;
- Nucleons;
- Particle Acceleration;
- Polar Caps;
- Relativistic Particles;
- Shock Waves;
- Space Radiation