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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

The AMS-02 experiment recently published time-dependent fluxes of deuterons (D) from May 2011 to April 2021, divided into 33 periods of four Bartels rotations each. These temporal structures are associated with solar modulation. In this…

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

We perform a comprehensive analysis of cosmic-ray propagation using the time-dependent AMS-02 flux measurements covering a full solar cycle, with particular emphasis on the role of solar modulation. We fit two representative Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Isabelle John , Alessandro Cuoco , Mattia Di Mauro

Our ability to identify the sources of cosmic rays and understand how these particles propagate through the interstellar medium is hindered by the combined effects of the solar wind and its embedded magnetic field, collectively known as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-03 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

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 magnetised solar wind modulates the Galactic cosmic ray flux in the heliosphere up to rigidities as high as 40 GeV. In this work, we present a new and straightforward extension of the popular, but limited force-field model, thus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-25 Marco Kuhlen , Philipp Mertsch

The energy spectra of cosmic rays (CRs) below tens of GeV are significantly modulated by solar activity within the heliosphere. To investigate the properties of Galactic CRs, it is important to determine the unmodulated local interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Meng-Jie Zhao , Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin

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

An important factor limiting our ability to understand the production and propagation of cosmic rays pertains to the effects of heliospheric forces, commonly known as solar modulation. The solar wind is capable of generating time and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The AMS02 collaboration has recently published high precision daily measurements of the spectra of cosmic ray protons, helium nuclei and electrons taken during a time interval of approximately 10 years from 2011 to 2020. Positron spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 Paolo Lipari , Silvia Vernetto

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

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

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

This study examines the impact of solar modulation on the antiproton excess observed by AMS-02, which may indicate dark matter (DM) annihilation. We analyze three solar modulation models: the force-field approximation (FFA), a time-,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Kai-Kai Duan , Xiao Wang , Wen-Hao Li , Zhi-Hui Xu , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

After six years of continuous observations in space, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment has released new data on the temporal evolution of the proton and helium fluxes in cosmic rays. These data revealed that the ratio between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-24 Nicola Tomassetti , Fernando Barão , Bruna Bertucci , Emanuele Fiandrini , José Figueiredo , João Barreira , Miguel Orcinha

Low energy cosmic rays are modulated by the solar activity when they propagation in the heliosphere, leading to ambiguities in understanding their acceleration at sources and propagation in the Milky Way. By means of the precise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Qiang Yuan , Da-Ming Wei

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

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

The spectra of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) contain crucial information about their origin and propagation through the interstellar medium. When GCRs reach Earth, they are significantly influenced by the solar wind and the heliospheric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Kai-Kai Duan
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