Cosmic Rays in Magnetospheres of the Earth and Other Planets

Lev Dorman

ISBN 10: 1402092385 / ISBN 13: 9781402092381

Published by Springer, 2009

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cosmic Rays in Magnetospheres of the Earth and Other Planets
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402092385
• ISBN 13: 9781402092381
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 243W x 166H x 47D millimeters 243 millimeters width by 166 millimeters height by 47 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1278 grams

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Synopsis

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).

About the Author

Lev I. Dorman is Head of Israel Cosmic Rays & Space Weather Center and Emilio Segre Observatory, affiliated to Tel Aviv University and Israel Space Agency and Chief Scientist of Cosmic Ray Department of N.V. Pushkov IZMIRAN, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Russia.