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Cosmic Ray Stömer Cut-offs on the Surface of Jupiter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. J. Cooke
D. J. Cooke*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Tasmania
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It has recently been reported (Cini-Castagnoli et al. 1973; Jacklyn and Cini-Castagnoli, 1974) that Jupiter may be responsible for a modulation component in the counting rate of underground cosmic ray detectors on the earth. The evidence suggests that a screening mechanism is operating, in as much as the observed counting rates are diminished when Jupiter is within the field of view of these detectors. The magnitude of the effect is larger than can be accounted for by simple line-of-sight obscuration by the planet itself, and it has been suggested that the intense and extensive Jovian magnetic field is producing the effect.

Type
Cosmic Ray Astronomy
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , September 1974 , pp. 296 - 297
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1974

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