Hill, M. E. and Allen, R. C. and Kollmann, P. and Brown, L. E. and Decker, R. B. and McNutt, R. L. and Krimigis, S. M. and Andrews, G. B. and Bagenal, F. and Clark, G. and Elliott, H. A. and Jaskulek, S. E. and Kusterer, M. B. and Leske, R. A. and Lisse, C. M. and Mewaldt, R. A. and Nelson, K. S. and Richardson, J. D. and Romeo, G. and Salazar, N. A. and Vandegriff, J. D. and Bernardoni, E. A. and Gladstone, G. R. and Horanyi, M. and Linscott, I. R. and Singer, K. N. and Steffl, A. J. and Summers, M. E. and Throop, H. B. and Young, L. A. and Olkin, C. B. and Parker, J. Wm. and Spencer, J. R. and Stern, S. A. and Verbiscer, A. J. and Weaver, H. A. (2020) Influence of Solar Disturbances on Galactic Cosmic Rays in the Solar Wind, Heliosheath, and Local Interstellar Medium: Advanced Composition Explorer, New Horizons, and Voyager Observations. Astrophysical Journal, 905 (1). Art. No. 69. ISSN 1538-4357. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abb408. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20201215-141038410
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We augment the heliospheric network of galactic cosmic ray (GCR) monitors using 2012–2017 penetrating radiation measurements from the New Horizons (NH) Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), obtaining intensities of ≳75 MeV particles. The new, predominantly GCR observations provide critical links between the Sun and Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 (V2 and V1), in the heliosheath and local interstellar medium (LISM), respectively. We provide NH, Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), V2, and V1 GCR observations, using them to track solar cycle variations and short-term Forbush decreases from the Sun to the LISM, and to examine the interaction that results in the surprising, previously reported V1 LISM anisotropy episodes. To investigate these episodes and the hitherto unexplained lagging of associated in situ shock features at V1, propagating disturbances seen at ACE, NH, and V2 were compared to V1. We conclude that the region where LISM magnetic field lines drape around the heliopause is likely critical for communicating solar disturbance signals upstream of the heliosheath to V1. We propose that the anisotropy-causing physical process that suppresses intensities at ~90° pitch angles relies on GCRs escaping from a single compression in the draping region, not on GCRs trapped between two compressions. We also show that NH suprathermal and energetic particle data from PEPSSI are consistent with the interpretation that traveling shocks and corotating interaction region (CIR) remnants can be distinguished by the existence or lack of Forbush decreases, respectively, because turbulent magnetic fields at local shocks inhibit GCR transport while older CIR structures reaching the outer heliosphere do not.
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Additional Information: | © 2020. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2019 August 5; revised 2020 August 25; accepted 2020 August 27; published 2020 December 14. The NH work was supported by NASA NH funding through contract NAS5-97271/Task Order 30 and NASA Voyager Interstellar Mission NNN06AA01C. NH/PEPSSI data are publicly available through NASA's planetary data archive (https://pds.nasa.gov). We thank the ACE SWEPAM instrument team and the ACE Science Center (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/level2/new/) for providing the solar wind data. We appreciate the efforts of the Voyager MAG team in providing V1 magnetic field measurements (https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov). We acknowledge and thank the network of observers who provided the sunspot number measurements, courtesy of the Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels (http://www.sidc.be/silso/home). M.E.H. would like to acknowledge helpful conversations with members of the NASA DRIVE science center, Our Heliospheric Shield, NASA grant 18-DRIVE18_2-0029, 80NSSC20K0603, during the revision stage of this paper. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | Interstellar magnetic fields ; Galactic cosmic rays ; Solar wind ; Solar wind termination ; Heliopause ; Heliosheath ; Solar energetic particles ; Cosmic rays ; Forbush effect ; Interplanetary shocks ; Solar cycle ; Cosmic ray detectors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification Code: | Unified Astronomy Thesaurus concepts: Interstellar magnetic fields (845); Galactic cosmic rays (567); Solar wind (1534); Solar wind termination (1535); Heliopause (707); Heliosheath (710); Solar energetic particles (1491); Cosmic rays (329); Forbush effec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/abb408 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | M. E. Hill et al 2020 ApJ 905 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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