Solar Cosmic Rays
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 260
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780792369288
Subjects: Astronomy, Space & Time; Particle & high-energy physics; Physics; Astrophysics; Cosmic Rays; Science; Science/Mathematics; Solar cosmic rays; Astronomy - General; Earth Sciences - Geology; Nuclear Physics; Science / Astronomy; Science / Nuclear Physics; Science-Astronomy - General; Science-Earth Sciences - Geology; Astrophysics & Space Science
First sentence: Over the years the solar particle occurrences have been referred to by a number of descriptive names such as solar cosmic ray (SCR) events, solar proton events (SPE), solar particle events (SPE), ground level enhancements (GLE), and polar cap absorption (PCA) events (e.g., Dormán and Miroshnichenko, 1968; Pomerantz and Duggal, 1974; Sakurai, 1974; Dodson et al., 1975; Duggal, 1979; Miroshnichenko, 1980, 1986, 1992a, b; Akinyan et al., 1983; Miroshnichenko and Petrov, 1985; Bazilevskaya et al., 1986, 1990; Smart and Shea, 1989; Shea, 1990; Simpson, 1990; Flückiger, 1991; Heckman et al., 1992; Shea and Smart, 1990, 1993a,b; Dormán and Venkatesan, 1993; Stoker, 1995; Sladkova et al., 1998).