A database of charged cosmic rays
Abstract
Aims: This paper gives a description of a new online database and associated online tools (data selection, data export, plots, etc.) for charged cosmic-ray measurements. The experimental setups (type, flight dates, techniques) from which the data originate are included in the database, along with the references to all relevant publications.
Methods: The database relies on the MySQL5 engine. The web pages and queries are based on PHP, AJAX and the jquery, jquery.cluetip, jquery-ui, and table-sorter third-party libraries.
Results: In this first release, we restrict ourselves to Galactic cosmic rays with Z ≤ 30 and a kinetic energy per nucleon up to a few tens of TeV/n. This corresponds to more than 200 different sub-experiments (i.e., different experiments, or data from the same experiment flying at different times) in as many publications.
Conclusions: We set up a cosmic-ray database (CRDB) and provide tools to sort and visualise the data. New data can be submitted, providing the community with a collaborative tool to archive past and future cosmic-ray measurements.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201321344
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1302.5525
- Bibcode:
- 2014A&A...569A..32M
- Keywords:
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- astroparticle physics;
- solar neighborhood;
- cosmic rays;
- astronomical databases: miscellaneous;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 6 figures: new Sect. 2.3 on Solar modulation parameters in CRDB v2.1, see http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/crdb