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The Cosmic Rays propagation was studied in details using the HelMod-2D Monte Carlo code, that includes a general description of the diffusion tensor, and polar magnetic-field. The Numerical Approach used in this work is based on a set of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-22 P. Bobik , G. Boella , M. J. Boschini , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , G. La Vacca , K. Kudela , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza , M. Tacconi

The recovery of cosmic ray protons of energy ~150-250 MeV/nuc in solar cycle #23 from 2004 to 2010 has been followed at the Earth using IMP, ACE and balloon data and also at V2 between 74-92 AU and at V1 beyond the heliospheric termination…

Geophysics · Physics 2011-11-11 W. R. Webber , F. B. McDonald , P. R. Higbie , B. Heikkila

We study the solar-activity and solar-polarity dependence of galactic cosmic-ray intensity (CRI) on the solar and heliospheric parameters playing a significant role in solar modulation. We utilize the data for cosmic-ray intensity as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-07 O. P. M. Aslam , Badruddin

HelMod is a code evaluating the transport of Galactic cosmic rays through the inner heliosphere down to Earth. It is based on a 2-D Monte Carlo approach and includes a general description of the symmetric and antisymmetric parts of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , G. Johannesson , G. La Vacca , N. Masi , I. V. Moskalenko , E. Orlando , T. A. Porter , L. Quadrani , P. G. Rancoita , D. Rozza

High-resolution ultraviolet observations of nearby bright and faint stars are required to evaluate changes in the past and future galactic environments of the Sun, and the possibly impact of these changes on the interplanetary environment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. Frisch

Understanding the time-dependent relationship between the Sun's variability and cosmic rays (GCR) is essential for developing predictive models of energetic radiation in space. When traveling inside the heliosphere, GCRs are affected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-23 N. Tomassetti , E. Fiandrini , B. Bertucci , F. Donnini , M. Graziani , B. Khiali , A. Reina Conde

This paper describes the unfolding of the solar modulated galactic cosmic ray H and He nuclei spectra beyond ~105 AU in the heliosheath. Between 2008.0 and 2012.3 when Voyager 1 went from about 105 to 120.5 AU the spectral intensities of…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 W. R. Webber , P. R. Higbie , F. B. McDonald

We study solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) during the deep solar minimum, including the declining phase, of solar cycle 23 and compare the results of this unusual period with the results obtained during similar phases of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-03 O. P. M. Aslam , Badruddin

We consider the astrophysical implications of the diffusion equation solution for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) in the expanding universe, obtained in paper I (V.Berezinsky & A.Gazizov, ApJ 643 (2006) 8). The UHECR spectra are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 V. Berezinsky , A. Z. Gazizov

The transport of energetic particles such as Cosmic Rays is governed by the properties of the plasma being traversed. While these properties are rather poorly known for galactic and interstellar plasmas due to the lack of in situ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Tobias Wiengarten , Jens Kleimann , Horst Fichtner , Patrick Kühl , Andreas Kopp , Bernd Heber , Ralf Kissmann

Simultaneous and continuous observations of galactic cosmic-ray electrons and positrons from the PAMELA and AMS02 space experiments are most suitable for numerical modeling studies of the heliospheric modulation of these particles below 50…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-29 O. P. M. Aslam , D. Bisschoff , M. D. Ngobeni , M. S. Potgieter , R. Munini , M. Boezio , V. V. Mikhailov

On their way through the heliosphere, Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) are modulated by various effects before they can be detected at Earth. This process can be described by the Parker equation, which calculates the phase space distribution of…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Jan Gieseler , Bernd Heber , Konstantin Herbst

The intensity and energy spectrum of galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere are significantly influenced by the 11-year solar cycle, a phenomenon known as solar modulation. Understanding this effect and its underlying physical mechanisms…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 David Pelosi , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci , Francesco Faldi , Emanuele Fiandrini , Alejandro Reina Conde , Miguel Orcinha , Nicola Tomassetti

Simulating the irradiation of planetary atmospheres by cosmic ray particles requires, among others, the ability to understand and to quantify the interactions of charged particles with planetary magnetic fields. Here we present a process…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jason Hirtz , Ingo Leya

Cosmic ray intensities (CRIs) recorded by sixteen neutron monitors have been used to study its dependence on the tilt angles (TA) of the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) during period 1976-2014, which covers three solar activity cycles 21,…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 M. A. El-Borie , S. A. Gwaily , A. A. Bishara

Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) have to travel through the heliosphere before they interact with the Earth's atmosphere. During this, they are deflected by the Sun's magnetic field, causing variations in this field to imprint on the flux,…

We investigate the solar modulation effect with the long time cosmic ray proton and helium spectrum measured by AMS-02 on the time scale of a Bartels rotation (27 days) between May 2011 and May 2017. The time-span covers the negative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-26 Bing-Bing Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Sujie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

The angular width of Earth's Hadley cell has been related to the square root of the product of the tropospheric thickness and the buoyancy frequency, and to the inverse of the square root of the angular velocity and the planetary radius.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Karlie N. Rees , Timothy J. Garrett

When the Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) entering the heliosphere, they encounter the solar wind plasma, and their intensity is reduced, so-called solar modulation. The modulation is caused by the combination of a few factors, such as particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-07 Jieteng Jiang , Sujie Lin , Lili Yang

We present a comprehensive study of one method for measuring various parameters of global modes of oscillation of the Sun. Using velocity data taken by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI), we analyze spherical harmonic degrees l <= 300. Both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Tim Larson , Jesper Schou