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Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are affected by solar modulation while they propagate through the heliosphere. The study of the time variation of GCR spectra observed at Earth can shed light on the underlying physical processes, specifically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 Claudio Corti , Marius S. Potgieter , Veronica Bindi , Cristina Consolandi , Chris Light , Matteo Palermo , Alexis Popkow

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) inside the heliosphere are affected by solar modulation. To investigate this phenomenon and its underlying physical mechanisms, we have performed a data-driven analysis of the temporal dependence of the CR proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 Emanuele Fiandrini , Nicola Tomassetti , Bruna Bertucci , Federico Donnini , Maura Graziani , Behrouz Khiali , Alejandro Reina Conde

Thanks to space-borne experiments of cosmic-ray (CR) detection, such as the AMS and PAMELA missions in low-Earth orbit, or the Voyager-1 spacecraft in the interstellar space, a large collection of multi-channel and time-resolved CR data has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Nicola Tomassetti , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci , Emanuele Fiandrini , Miguel Orcinha

Our basic theoretical understanding of the sources of cosmic rays and their propagation through the interstellar medium is hindered by the Sun, that through the solar wind affects the observed cosmic-ray spectra. This effect is known as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Ilias Cholis , Ian McKinnon

As galactic cosmic rays propagate through the turbulent plasma environment within the heliosphere, they undergo a process of diffusion, drift and energy loss, leading to a notable reduction in their flux. This is the solar modulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Mei-Juan Wang

We believe that the extreme solar modulation of 3-60 MeV Galactic electrons measured by Voyager in the heliosheath and the interpretation of this new data in terms of the rigidity dependence of the diffusion coefficient at low rigidities…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 William R. Webber , Thomas E. Harrison , Nand Lal , Bryant Heikkila , Tina L. Villa

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

Recent data on Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) revealed that the helium energy spectrum is harder than the proton spectrum. The AMS experiment has now reported that the proton-to-helium ratio as function of rigidity $R$ (momentum-to-charge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-04 Nicola Tomassetti

We present high-statistics, precision measurements by AMS of the detailed time and rigidity dependence of the primary cosmic-ray electron, positron, proton and helium fluxes over 79 Bartels rotations from May 2011 to May 2017 in the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-20 Davide Rozza

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 solar modulation effect of cosmic rays in the heliosphere is an energy-, time-, and particle-dependent phenomenon which arises from a combination of basic particle transport processes such as diffusion, convection, adiabatic cooling,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Nicola Tomassetti , Miguel Orcinha , Fernando Barao , Bruna Bertucci

In this work we use the newly reported Boron-to-Carbon ratio (B/C) from AMS-02 and the time-dependent proton fluxes from PAMELA and AMS-02 to constrain the source and propagation parameters of cosmic rays in the Milky Way. A linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 Qiang Yuan , Su-Jie Lin , Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi

We study the time-dependent modulation effect and derive the local interstellar spectra (LIS) for the cosmic ray (CR) proton, helium, boron and carbon. A two-dimensional modulation model including the variation of the interplanetary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Bing-Bing Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kung Fang , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

The precision measurements of galactic cosmic ray protons from PAMELA and AMS are reproduced using a well-established 3D numerical model for the period July 2006 - November 2019. The resulting modulation parameters are applied to simulate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 O. P. M. Aslam , M. S. Potgieter , Xi Luo , M. D. Ngobeni

The solar modulation effect of Galactic cosmic rays is a time-dependent phenomenon that is caused by the transport of these particles through the magnetized plasma of the heliosphere. Using a data-driven model of cosmic-ray transport in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Miguel Orcinha , Nicola Tomassetti , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci

Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) inside the heliosphere are affected by magnetic turbulence and Solar wind disturbances which result in the so-called solar modulation effect. To investigate this phenomenon, we have performed a data-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-13 Nicola Tomassetti , Bruna Bertucci , Federico Donnini , Emanuele Fiandrini , Maura Graziani , Behrouz Khiali , Alejandro Reina Conde

The galactic cosmic rays (GCR) suffer from solar modulation when they propagate through the heliosphere. The transfer of the local interstellar spectrum (LIS) to the top-of-atmosphere spectra (TOA) is influenced by solar wind convection,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Cheng-Rui Zhu

In this paper, we investigate the heliospheric modulation of cosmic rays in interplanetary space, focusing on their propagation times and energy losses over the solar cycle. To perform the calculations, we employed a data-driven model based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-20 Nicola Tomassetti , Bruna Bertucci , Emanuele Fiandrini , Behrouz Khiali

A two-dimensional, time-dependent numerical model is used to calculate the modulation of cosmic rays in the heliosphere. Computations are compared to spacecraft observations in the inner and outer heliosphere. It is shown that the model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-22 Rex Manuel , Stefan Ferreira , Marius Potgieter
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