Cosmic Rays in Magnetospheres of the Earth and other Planets

By:

Lev Dorman

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Astrophysics and Space Science Library,

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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).

Release date Australia

November 20th, 2010

Author

Lev Dorman

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009

Illustrations

XXXIV, 770 p.

Pages

770

Series

Astrophysics and Space Science Library,

Dimensions

156x234x40

ISBN-13

9789048180967

Product ID

11083906

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