Signatures of Cosmic-Ray Interactions on the Solar Surface
Abstract
The fluxes of neutrinos, gamma rays, antiprotons, neutrons, and antineutrons that result from collisions of high-energy Galactic cosmic rays with the solar atmosphere are estimated. The results are sensitive to assumptions about cosmic-ray transport in the magnetic fields of the inner solar system. The high-energy photon flux should be observable by the Gamma Ray Observatory. The neutrino flux should produce less than one event per year in the next generation of neutrino telescopes. The antiproton flux is unobservable against the Galactic background. The neutron and antineutron fluxes are detectable only if neutrons produced in terrestrial cosmic-ray events may be discriminated against.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1086/170753
- Bibcode:
- 1991ApJ...382..652S
- Keywords:
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- Galactic Cosmic Rays;
- Solar Atmosphere;
- Antiprotons;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Neutrinos;
- Neutrons;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Solar System;
- Space Radiation;
- COSMIC RAYS: GENERAL;
- GAMMA RAYS: GENERAL;
- NEUTRINOS;
- SUN: ACTIVITY