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Inferring Energetic Particle Mean Free Paths from Observations of Anomalous Cosmic Rays in the Outer Heliosphere at Solar Maximum
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Cummings, A. C.
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Stone, E. C.
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- Simon, M.
- Lorenz, E.
- Pohl, M.
Abstract
We find that the mean free pathlength is higher by a factor of 10 or more at solar minimum than at the last solar maximum in 1900-1991, consistent with previous findings. In 2000-2001, the mean free pathlength has declined by a factor of ~10, but is still larger by a factor of ~3.6 than its value of ~0.15 AU in 1990-1991. As solar maximum conditions become durably established in the outer heliosphere over the next few months, it may be possible to deduce the radial dependence of the mean free pathlength.
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© Copernicus GmbH. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System This work was supported by NASA under contract NAS7-918. We thank the Wllcox Solar Observatory for the he-1 iospheric ti lt values (http://quake.stanford.edu/ wso/wso.html). We thank the MTT Space Plasma Group for supplying the daily averaged IMP-8 solar wind speeds (ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/plasma/imp/www/imp.html). We thank the ACE/SWEPAM team for supplying the ACE solar wind speeds (hltp://www.srl .cal tech .cdu/ ACE/ ASC/level2/i ndex .htm I).Attached Files
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