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Cosmic Rays in Magnetospheres of the Earth and other Planets

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Authors:
  1. Lev Dorman

    1. Head of Israel Cosmic Rays & Space Weather Center and Emilio Ségre Observatory, Tel Aviv University and Israel Space Agency, Qazrin, Israel
      Department of N.V. Pushkov IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Russia

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  • A comprehensive account of the physics describing the interaction of Cosmic Rays with planetary atmospheres, and reference of missions and their results measuring cosmic rays on Earth.

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 358)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
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  2. First Measurements of Cosmic Ray Geomagnetic Effects and the Problem of CR Nature

    Pages 1-8

  3. Cosmic Rays in the Dipole Geomagnetic Field

    Pages 9-49

  4. Cosmic Rays in the Real Geomagnetic Field

    Pages 51-190

  5. Cosmic Ray Planetary Surveys on Ships, Trains, Tracks, Planes, Balloons, and Satellites

    Pages 191-340

  6. Main Results of Cosmic Ray Survey to Antarctica on the Ship Italica in 1996/97

    Pages 341-380

  7. Geomagnetic Variations of Cosmic Rays

    Pages 381-524

  8. Magnetospheric Models and their Checking by Cosmic Rays

    Pages 525-621

  9. Galactic Cosmic Rays in Atmospheres and Magnetospheres of Other Planets

    Pages 623-632

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 633-770
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The problem of cosmic ray (CR) geomagnetic effects came to the fore at the beg- ning of the 1930s after the famous expeditions by J. Clay onboard ship (Slamat) between the Netherlands and Java using an ionization chamber. Many CR la- tude expeditions were organized by the famous scientists and Nobel Laureates R. Millikan and A. Compton. From the obtained latitude curves it follows that CRs cannot be gamma rays (as many scientists thought at that time), but must be charged particles. From measurements of azimuthally geomagnetic effect at that time it also followed that these charged particles must be mostly positive (see Chapter 1, and for more details on the history of the problem see monographs of Irina Dorman, M1981, M1989). The ?rst explanations of obtained results were based on the simple dipole - proximation of the geomagnetic ?eld and the theory of energetic charged particles moving in dipole magnetic ?elds, developed in 1907 by C. Stormer ¨ to explain the aurora phenomenon. Let us note that it was made about 5 years before V. Hess discovered CRs, and received the Nobel Prize in 1936 together with K. Anderson (for the discovery of CR and positrons in CR).

Authors and Affiliations

  • Head of Israel Cosmic Rays & Space Weather Center and Emilio Ségre Observatory, Tel Aviv University and Israel Space Agency, Qazrin, Israel

    Lev Dorman

  • Department of N.V. Pushkov IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Russia

    Lev Dorman

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