Observation of the shadows of the Moon and Sun using 100 TeV cosmic rays

Observation of the shadows of the Moon and Sun using 100 TeV cosmic rays

The Chicago Air Shower Array has imaged the shadows of the Moon and Sun and measured the angular diameter of the Moon with cosmic rays having energies above about 100 TeV. The shadow of the Sun shows effects attributed to the curvature of cosmic rays by the solar magnetic field. This study verifies...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. D, Particles and fields Particles and fields, 1994-02, Vol.49 (3), p.1171-1177
Hauptverfasser: Borione, A, Catanese, M, Covault, CE, Cronin, JW, Fick, BE, Gibbs, KG, Green, KD, Hauptfeld, S, Kieda, D, Krimm, HA, Mascarenhas, NC, Matthews, J, McKay, TA, Müller, D, Newport, BJ, Nitz, D, Ong, RA, Rosenberg, LJ, Sinclair, D, van der Velde JC
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Sprache:eng
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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
COSMIC RADIATION
COSMIC RAY FLUX
COSMIC SHOWERS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAIN SEQUENCE STARS
MOON
RADIATION FLUX
RADIATIONS
SATELLITES
SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION
SHADOW EFFECT
SHOWERS
STARS 661320 > Auroral, Ionospheric, & Magnetospheric Phenomena-- (1992-)
SUN
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Zusammenfassung:The Chicago Air Shower Array has imaged the shadows of the Moon and Sun and measured the angular diameter of the Moon with cosmic rays having energies above about 100 TeV. The shadow of the Sun shows effects attributed to the curvature of cosmic rays by the solar magnetic field. This study verifies that our direction reconstruction has no serious systematic errors, and provides a measure of the angular resolution of the array.
ISSN:0556-2821
1089-4918
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1171