Low-energy particle events associated with sector boundaries

Autor: Zdeněk Švestka, L. Fritzova-Svestkova, E. R. Hedeman, J. T. Nolte, H. W. Dodson-Prince
Rok vydání: 1976
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Zdroj: Solar Physics. 50:491-500
ISSN: 1573-093X
0038-0938
DOI: 10.1007/bf00155310
Popis: Onsets of some 40 to 45 low-energy proton events during the years 1957 1969 coincided in time with transits of well-defined sector boundaries across the Earth. These events can be interpreted as long-lived proton streams filling up some of the magnetic sectors, indicating an acceleration of protons which is not associated with typical proton-producing flares. The sharp onsets of these particle streams, as well as a deficiency of flare-associated particle events shortly before the boundary transit, indicate that in some cases magnetic sector boundaries can inhibit transverse propagation of low-energy particles in the solar corona or in interplanetary space.
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