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The Propagation of Cosmic Radiation Through the Inter-Planetary Magnetic Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

K. G. McCracken
K. G. McCracken*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Adelaide
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Instruments were flown on the Pioneer 6 and 7 spacecraft during 1965-66 to study the degree of anisotropy of cosmic radiation in the energy range 7.5-90 Mev/nucleón. The instruments record the cosmic ray fluxes from each of four contiguous ‘quadrants’ of azimuthal rotation of the spacecraft, for each of three energy windows 7.5-45 Mev, 45-90 Mev, and 150-350 Mev for alpha particles and heavier nuclei. In addition, the counting rate of all particles of energy >7.5 Mev is recorded, thereby providing cosmic ray data of high statistical precision useful in the study of fast changes in the cosmic ray flux.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 29 - 30
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1967

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