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