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Measurements of the Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic-Ray Abundances between Z=30 and Z=40 with the TIGER Instrument

Link, J. T. and Barbier, L. M. and Binns, W. R. and Christian, E. R. and Cummings, J. R. and de Nolfo, G. A. and Geier, S. and Israel, M. H. and Mewaldt, R. A. and Mitchell, J. W. and Schindler, S. M. and Scott, L. M. and Stone, E. C. and Streitmatter, R. E. and Waddington, C. J. (2003) Measurements of the Ultra-Heavy Galactic Cosmic-Ray Abundances between Z=30 and Z=40 with the TIGER Instrument. In: Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference. Vol.4. International Union of Applied Physics , Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1781-1784. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20150403-091555049

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Abstract

The Trans-Iron Galactic Element.Recorder (TIGER) instrument was launched in December 2001 from McMurdo, Antarctica. TIGER is a cosmic-ray telescope that uses four scintillation counters, two Cherenkov detectors and a scintillating fiber hodoscope to determine the charge (Z) and energy of a particle. During the 31.8 day flight it measured ~100 ultra-heavy galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) events with Z > 30 and demonstrated charge resolution sufficient to resolve the individual elemental abundances in this region. The abundances of the Ultra-Heavy GCRs in this range can be used to distinguish between GCR source models. We present our measurements and discuss the implications for the GCR source.


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Binns, W. R.0000-0001-6110-3407
Christian, E. R.0000-0003-2134-3937
de Nolfo, G. A.0000-0002-3677-074X
Geier, S.0000-0002-3948-9339
Israel, M. H.0000-0002-8104-208X
Mewaldt, R. A.0000-0003-2178-9111
Stone, E. C.0000-0002-2010-5462
Additional Information:Copyright Universal Academy Press Inc. This research was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration under grant NAGS-5078. JTL was futher supported by a NASA GSRP grant NGT5-50240.
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NASANGT5-50240
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