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Energy Changes of Cosmic Rays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

L. J. Gleeson
Affiliation:
Monash University
G. M. Webb
Affiliation:
University of Lae

Extract

Recently (Gleeson (1972), Quenby (1973), Gleeson and Webb (1974, 1978)) it has been shown that the mean rate of change of momentum of cosmic rays reckoned for a volume fixed in the solar system is

where G = (1/Up)(∂Up/∂r)si the cosmic-ray density gradient with Up, the differential number density with respect to momentum p at position r. (cf also the integral form of (1) by Jokipii and Parker 1967).

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Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1978

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References

Gleeson, L. J. and Webb, G. M., Astrophys. and Space Sci. (in press) (1978a).Google Scholar
Gleeson, L. J. and Webb, G. m., J.G.R. Letters (to appear) (1978b).Google Scholar
Jokipii, J. R. and Parker, E. N., Planet. Space Sci., 15, 1375 (1967).CrossRefGoogle Scholar