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In the present study the occurrence of an unusual class of low amplitude anisotropic wave trains in the cosmic ray neutron intensity, which is distinctly different from the average diurnal variation as well as from other recognized types of low amplitude anisotropic wave trains are noted and the directional distribution in the interplanetary space determined. The major objective of this paper is to study the first three harmonics of low amplitude anisotropic wave trains of cosmic ray intensity over the period 1981–1994 for Deep River neutron monitoring station. The significant characteristic of these events is that the low amplitude wave trains shows a maximum intensity of diurnal component in a direction earlier than 18:00 h/co-rotational direction. It is noticed that these events are not caused either by the high-speed solar wind streams or by the sources on the Sun responsible for producing these streams such as polar coronal holes. However the possibility of occurrence of these events during high-speed solar wind streams cannot be denied. The occurrence of low amplitude events is dominant for positive polarity of Bz. The disturbance storm time index i.e. Dst, remains consistently negative only for majority of the low amplitude wave train events, which is never been reported earlier. The amplitude as well as direction of first two harmonics seems to remain unaffected with the variation in the Dst and Ap-index. However, the amplitude as well as direction of third harmonic found to deviates with the increase of Dst and Ap-index. The corotating streams produce significant deviations in cosmic ray intensity as well as in solar wind speed during low amplitude anisotropic wave train events. 相似文献
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《Planetary and Space Science》2007,55(14):2077-2086
Several workers have attempted to find out the possible origin of the “high amplitude wave trains” of enhanced diurnal variation of cosmic rays and to develop a suitable realistic theoretical model that can explain the different harmonics in individual days. The various observed harmonics of the cosmic-ray variation may be understood on a unified basis if the free-space cosmic-ray anisotropy is non-sinusoidal in form. The major objective of this paper is to study the first three harmonics of high-amplitude wave trains of cosmic-ray intensity over the period 1981–1994 for Deep River neutron monitoring station. The main characteristic of these events is that the high-amplitude wave trains show a maximum intensity of diurnal component in a direction earlier than 18:00 h/co-rotational direction. It is noteworthy that the amplitude significantly enhanced and the phase remains in the co-rotational direction during the years close to solar-activity maximum for first harmonic. Significant deviations have been observed in the semi-diurnal amplitude after the onset of solar-activity maximum. This leads us to conclude that the amplitude as well as direction of the first harmonic and the amplitude of second harmonic are correlated with solar-activity cycle during these HAEs. The amplitude and phase of all the three harmonics (diurnal/semi-diurnal/tri-diurnal) are not found to depend on the polarity of Bz component of interplanetary magnetic field for long-term variation. The occurrence of high-amplitude events is dominant for the positive polarity of Bz component of IMF. The occurrence of HAEs is dominant during the period of average solar-wind velocity, but their occurrence during HSSWSs cannot be denied. The possibility of occurrence of these events is more during the periods of co-rotating streams. The occurrence of HAE is dominant when Dst-index remains negative and this point is not reported earlier in the litterature. All the high amplitude events occurred, when geomagnetic activity index, Ap, remains ⩽20. 相似文献
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The occurrence of a large number of high and low amplitude anisotropic wave train events over the years 1981–1994 has been examined along with the different solar features. The results indicate that the time of maximum of diurnal variation significantly remains in the 18-h direction for majority of the high and low amplitude wave trains. The amplitude of diurnal anisotropy remains significantly high and phase shifts towards earlier hours as compared to the quite day annual average values for majority of the HAEs. The diurnal amplitude remains significantly low and phase shifts towards earlier hours as compared to the quiet day annual average values for majority of the LAEs. The occurrence of these enhanced/low amplitude events is found to be dominant during the positive polarity of the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field. The amplitude of the diurnal anisotropy of these events is found to increase on the days of magnetic cloud as compared to the days prior to the event and it found to decrease during the later period of the event as the cloud passes the Earth. The high-speed solar wind streams do not play any significant role in causing these types of events. The interplanetary disturbances (magnetic clouds) are also effective in producing cosmic ray decreases. 相似文献
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The purpose of this work is to investigate the first three harmonics of low-amplitude anisotropic wave trains (LAEs) of cosmic ray intensity and their association with solar and heliospheric parameters. The significant behaviour of these events is that the amplitude remains low for the first harmonic and high for the second/third harmonics, whereas direction of the anisotropy shift is towards earlier hours for the first harmonic and towards later hours for the second/third harmonic compared to annual average anisotropy. The first two harmonics are found to correlate well with the solar activity cycle during these LAEs. The amplitude and the direction of the first two harmonics do not show any significant association with the polarity change of the Bx/By component of the interplanetary magnetic field during LAEs. However, the third harmonic (amplitude and phase) shows some positive correlation with the Bx and negative correlation with the By component. The occurrence of LAEs is dominant for the positive polarity of Bx and the negative polarity of By. The occurrence of LAEs is dominant during the period of average solar wind velocity but their occurrence during high-speed solar wind streams cannot be overlooked. The frequency of occurrence of these LAEs is more during co-rotating streams.The amplitude of first and second harmonic shows deviations for different values of geomagnetic activity index Ap. However, the amplitude of second harmonic and direction of all the three harmonics do not show any significant association with the Ap-index. The Ap-index consistently remains in the range 14?Kp?31 during these events.The amplitude of first and third harmonic and the direction of first harmonic show deviations for different values of proton density. However, the amplitude of the second harmonic and the direction of the second and third harmonics do not show any significant association with proton density. The occurrence of LAEs is dominant when proton density remains ?20. The cosmic ray intensity during LAEs has good anti-correlation with interplanetary magnetic field strength (B) and its Bx component, whereas it shows a good correlation with its By component. However, it shows significant anti-correlation with sunspot number, the product (R×V) and (R×B). 相似文献
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The unusually low amplitude anisotropic wave train events (LAEs) in cosmic ray intensity using the ground based Deep River
neutron monitor data has been studied during the period 1991–94. It has been observed that the phase of the diurnal anisotropy
for the majority of the LAE events remains in the co-rotational direction. However, for some of the LAE events the phase of
the diurnal anisotropy shifts towards earlier hours as compared to the annual average values. On the other hand, the amplitude
of the semi-diurnal anisotropy remains statistically the same, whereas phase shift-towards later hours; a similar trend has
also been found in case of tri-diurnal anisotropy. The high-speed solar wind streams do not play a significant role in causing
the LAE events. The occurrence of LAE is independent of the nature of the Bz component of IMF polarity.
Published in Astrofizika, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 313–324 (May 2007). 相似文献
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The unusually low amplitude anisotropic wave train events (LAWEs) in cosmic ray intensity using the ground based Deep River neutron monitor data has been studied during the period 1991–1994. It has been observed that the amplitude of the diurnal anisotropy for LAWE events significantly remains quite low and statistically constant as compared to the quiet day annual average amplitude for majority of the events. The time of maximum of the diurnal anisotropy of LAWE significantly shifts towards earlier hours as compared to the co-rotational direction and remains in the direction of quiet day annual average anisotropy for majority of the events. On the other hand, the amplitude of the semi/tri-diurnal anisotropy remains statistically the same and high whereas, phase shift towards later hours as compared to the quiet day annual average values for majority of the LAWEs. The diurnal anisotropy vectors are found to shifts towards earlier hours for 50% of the events; whereas they are found to shifts towards later hours for rest of the events (50%) relative to the average vector for the entire period. It is also noted that the amplitude of these vectors are found to increase significantly with the shift of the diurnal anisotropy vectors towards later hours. The high-speed solar wind streams do not play a significant role in causing the LAWE events on short-term basis, however it may be responsible in causing these events on long-term basis (Mishra and Mishra 2007). Occurrence of LAWE is dominant, when the polarity of Bx and Bz remains positive and polarity of By remains negative, which is never been reported earlier. The amplitude of first harmonic shows good anti-correlation and direction of first and third harmonic shows nearly good anti-correlation with solar wind velocity, whereas the direction of second harmonic shows nearly good anti-correlation with interplanetary magnetic field strength. 相似文献
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Cosmic-ray intensity data recorded with the ground-based neutron monitor at Deep River have been investigated taking into
account the associated interplanetary magnetic field and solar-wind plasma data during 1981 – 1994. A large number of days
having abnormally high or low amplitudes for five or more successive days as compared to the annual average amplitude of diurnal
anisotropy have been taken as high- or low-amplitude anisotropic wave-train events. The amplitude of the diurnal anisotropy
of these events is found to increase on days with a magnetic cloud as compared to the days prior to the event, and it is found
to decrease during the later period of the event as the cloud passes the Earth. The high-speed solar-wind streams do not play
any significant role in causing these types of events. However, corotating solar-wind streams produce significant deviations
in cosmic-ray intensity during high- and low-amplitude events. The interplanetary disturbances (magnetic clouds) are also
effective in producing cosmic-ray decreases. Hα solar flares have a good positive correlation with both the amplitude and
direction of the anisotropy for high-amplitude events, while the principal magnetic storms have a good positive correlation
with both amplitude and direction of the anisotropy for low-amplitude events. The source responsible for these unusual anisotropic
wave trains in cosmic rays has been proposed. 相似文献
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In the present work the data of three different neutron monitoring stations, Deep River, Tokyo and Inuvik located at different
geomagnetic cutoff rigidities and altitudes has been harmonically analysed for the period 1980–1993, 1980–1990 and 1981–1993
respectively to investigate for a comparative study of diurnal, semi-diurnal and tri-diurnal anisotropies in cosmic ray (CR)
intensity in connection with the change in IMF Bz component and solar wind velocity on 60 quietest days. It is observed that
the amplitude of first harmonic is highly anti-correlated to the solar wind velocity during the period of high-speed solar
wind stream (HSSWS) epoch on quiet days for three neutron monitor stations at different geomagnetic rigidity thresholds. During
quiet days the amplitude of all the three harmonics significantly deviates on the onset of HSSWS epoch, whereas the direction
of the anisotropy of all the three harmonics remains time invariant at three different cut off rigidity stations. The amplitude
as well as the direction of anisotropy of all the three harmonics does not have time variation characteristics associated
with Bz component of IMF on geo-magnetically most quiet days. 相似文献
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We studied the cosmic ray intensity variation due to interplanetary magnetic clouds during an unusual class of low amplitude
anisotropic wave train events. The low amplitude anisotropic wave train events in cosmic ray intensity have been identified
using the data of ground based Deep River neutron monitor and studied during the period 1981–1994. Even though the occurrence
of low amplitude anisotropic wave trains does not depend on the onset of interplanetary magnetic clouds, but the possibility
of occurrence of these events cannot be overlooked during the periods of the interplanetary magnetic cloud events. It is observed
that the solar wind velocity remains higher (> 300) than normal and the interplanetary magnetic field B remains lower than normal on the onset of the interplanetary magnetic cloud during the passage of low amplitude wave trains.
It is also noted that the proton density remains significantly low during high solar wind velocity, which is expected. The
north south component of interplanetary magnetic field Bz turns southward to one day before the arrival of cloud and remains in the southward direction after the arrival of a cloud.
During these events the cosmic ray intensity is found to increase with increase of solar wind velocity. The superposed epoch
analysis of cosmic ray intensity for these events during the onset of interplanetary magnetic clouds reveals that the decrease
in cosmic ray intensity starts not at the onset of the cloud but after a few days. The cosmic ray intensity increases on arrival
of the magnetic cloud and decreases gradually after the passage of the magnetic cloud. 相似文献
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Using the ground based neutron monitor data of Deep River, the high-amplitude anisotropic wave train events (HAE) in cosmic ray intensity have been investigated during the period 1991-1994. It has been observed that the phase of diurnal anisotropy for majority of HAE shifts towards later hours; whereas it remains in the corotational/18-h direction for some of the HAE cases. Further, for majority of HAE cases the amplitude of diurnal and semi-diurnal anisotropy significantly deviates from the annual average values. The phase of semi-diurnal and tri-diurnal anisotropy for all HAE cases has shifted to later hours. Furthermore, for tri-diurnal anisotropy the amplitude remains statistically the same. The occurrence of HAE is unaffected by the nature of the Bz component of IMF polarity. 相似文献
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In the present work the cosmic ray data of three different neutron monitoring stations, Deep River, Inuvik, and Tokyo, located
at different geomagnetic cutoff rigidities and altitudes have been harmonically analyzed for the period 1980–95 for a comparative
study of diurnal semi-diurnal and tri-diurnal anisotropies in cosmic ray intensity in connection with the change in interplanetary
magnetic field Bz component and solar wind velocity on 60 quietest days. It is observed that the amplitudes of all the three
harmonics increase during the period 1982–84 at all the stations during the high speed solar wind stream epoch and remain
low during the declining phase of the stream. The amplitudes of the three harmonics have no obvious characteristics associated
with the time variation of magnitude of the Bz component. The phases of all the three harmonics have no time variation characteristics
associated with solar wind velocity and Bz.
Published in Astrofizika, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 651–664 (August 2006). 相似文献
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M.F. Tolba 《Planetary and Space Science》1979,27(4):355-364
The expected diurnal waves with different harmonics in cosmic ray intensity arising from the semidiurnal anisotropy, due to the geometrical inclination of the Earth's axis, are calculated for different cosmic ray stations. The sensitivity of these waves to the exponent n of the latitude dependence function cosn λ for the semidiurnal anisotropy is investigated. The amplitudes of the geometrical tridiurnal waves for high latitude stations show a great sensitivity to n and, therefore, it is concluded that its value can be determined precisely from the tridiurnal wave rather than from the semidiurnal waves observed at different latitudes. Available data from high latitude neutron monitors were used to determine n and it was found as 2±0.4, which is of higher accuracy than the previously determined values. The present results are consistent with either the density gradient or loss cone models of the semidiurnal anisotropy. Furthermore, they show that the geometrical tridiurnal waves have a very small amplitude and can be neglected in any analysis concerning tridiurnal variations in cosmic ray intensity. 相似文献
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Long-term changes in the cosmic-ray diurnal anisotropy 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
A detailed study has been conducted on the long-term changes in diurnal anisotropy of cosmic rays for the two solar cycles (20 and 21) during the period 1965–1990; this shows that the amplitude of the anisotropy is related to the characteristics of high and low amplitude days. The occurrence of high amplitude days are found to be positively correlated with the sunspot cycle while the low amplitude days are correlated negatively with the sunspot cycle. Further, the variability of the time of maximum of the aniotropy indicates that it essentially is composed of two components; one in the 1800 hours (corotation) direction and the other, an additional component in the 1500 hours direction (45° east of the S-N line) apparently caused by the reversal of the solar polar magnetic field. Our observations also suggest that the direction of the anisotropy of high- and low-amplitude days contribute significantly to the long-term behaviour of the diurnal anisotropy as it produces an additional component of cosmic rays in the radial (1200 hours) direction. 相似文献
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《New Astronomy》2016
The diurnal variation of cosmic ray intensity, based on the records of two neutron monitor stations at Athens (Greece) and Oulu (Finland) for the time period 2001 to 2014, is studied. This period covers the maximum and the descending phase of the solar cycle 23, the minimum of the solar cycles 23/24 and the ascending phase of the solar cycle 24.These two stations differ in their geographic latitude and magnetic threshold rigidity. The amplitude and phase of the diurnal anisotropy vectors have been calculated on annual and monthly basis.From our analysis it is resulted that there is a different behaviour in the characteristics of the diurnal anisotropy during the different phases of the solar cycle, depended on the solar magnetic field polarity, but also during extreme events of solar activity, such as Ground Level Enhancements and cosmic ray events, such as Forbush decreases and magnetospheric events. These results may be useful to Space Weather forecasting and especially to Biomagnetic studies. 相似文献
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In the present work an analysis has been made of the extreme events occurring during July 2005. Specifically, a rather intense
Forbush decrease was observed at different neutron monitors all over the world during 16 July 2005. An effort has been made
to study the effect of this unusual event on cosmic ray intensity as well as various solar and interplanetary plasma parameters.
It is noteworthy that during 11 to 18 July 2005 the solar activity ranged from low to very active. Especially low levels occurred
on 11, 15, and 17 July whereas high levels took place on 14 and 16 July 2005. The Sun is observed to be active during 11 to
18 July 2005, the interplanetary magnetic field intensity lies within 15 nT, and solar wind velocity was limited to ∼500 kms-1.
The geomagnetic activity during this period remains very quiet, the Kp index did not exceed 5, the disturbance storm time
Dst index remains ∼-70 nT and no sudden storm commencement has been detected during this period. It is noted that for the
majority of the hours, the north/south component of the interplanetary magnetic field, Bz, remains negative, and the cosmic
ray intensity increases and shows good/high correlation with Bz, as the polarity of Bz tends to shift from negative to positive
values, the intensity decreases and shows good/high anti-correlation with Bz. The cosmic ray intensity tends to decrease with
increase of interplanetary magnetic field strength (B) and shows anti-correlation for the majority of the days.
Published in Astrofizika, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 255–265 (May 2008). 相似文献
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Ambika Singh Anil Kumar Tiwari S. P. Agrawal 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2010,31(2):89-96
A detailed study has been conducted on the long-term changes in the diurnal variation of cosmic rays in terms of high and
low amplitude wave trains event (HAEs/LAEs) during the period 1996–2008 (solar cycle 23), using the neutron monitor data from
Kiel neutron monitoring station. As such, 17 HAE and 48 LAE cases have been detected and analyzed. These HAEs appear quite
dominantly during the declining phase as well as near the maximum of the solar activity cycle 23. In contrast, the low amplitude
events (LAEs) are inversely correlated with solar activity cycle. In fact, LAEs appear quite dominantly during the minimum
phase of the solar activity. When we compare our results for diurnal phase with that observed on an annual average basis,
we notice no significant diurnal phase shift for HAEs as well as for LAEs. Moreover, we find that the high-speed solar wind
streams (HSSWS) do not play any significant role in causing these variations. These results are discussed on the basis of
that observed in earlier cycles. 相似文献
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Badruddin 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》2006,27(2-3):209-217
We discuss the effects of certain dynamic features of space environment in the heliosphere, the geo-magnetosphere, and the
earth’s atmosphere. In particular, transient perturbations in solar wind plasma, interplanetary magnetic field, and energetic
charged particle (cosmic ray) fluxes near 1 AU in the heliosphere have been discussed. Transient variations in magnetic activity
in geo-magnetosphere and solar modulation effects in the heliosphere have also been studied. Emphasis is on certain features
of transient perturbations related to space weather effects. Relationships between geomagnetic storms and transient modulations
in cosmic ray intensity (Forbush decreases), especially those caused by shock-associated interplanetary disturbances, have
been studied in detail. We have analysed the cosmic ray, geomagnetic and interplanetary plasma/field data to understand the
physical mechanisms of two phenomena namely, Forbush decrease and geomagnetic storms, and to search for precursors to Forbush
decrease (and geomagnetic storms) that can be used as a signature to forecast space weather. It is shown that the use of cosmic
ray records has practical application for space weather predictions. Enhanced diurnal anisotropy and intensity deficit of
cosmic rays have been identified as precursors to Forbush decreases in cosmic ray intensity. It is found that precursor to
smaller (less than 5%) amplitude Forbush decrease due to weaker interplanetary shock is enhanced diurnal anisotropy. However,
larger amplitude (greater than 5%) Forbush decrease due to stronger interplanetary shock shows loss cone type intensity deficit
as precursor in ground based intensity record. These precursors can be used as inputs for space weather forecast. 相似文献
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North/south directional telescopes operating at the surface and vertical and inclined telescopes operating at a depth of 60 m.w.e. underground in London have been employed to study changes in the cosmic ray solar diurnal variation over the past few years. In order to extend the study to the low rigidity end of the spectrum, results obtained by the NM64 neutron monitors operating at Deep River and Goose Bay in Canada have also been examined. The surface telescope data require that the full corotation amplitude of 0.59 per cent should have been observed during almost the entire solar cycle with the possible exception of the year 1965 when cosmic ray intensity was a maximum. However, the effective amplitude observed by neutron monitors during most of the solar cycle was only about 0.52 per cent and this reduction has been ascribed to the lower value of the exponent of the energy spectrum which prevails amongst the latitude sensitive primaries. Nevertheless, the upper limiting rigidity was varying during the course of the solar cycle, its value being high when solar activity was high and low when solar activity decreased. During 1965, even though the upper limiting rigidity assumed its lowest value, the free space amplitude was also diminished by a little over 10 per cent. Even though the theory of rigid corotation invoking a purely azimuthal streaming of the cosmic ray gas successfully predicts the free space amplitude, it fails to explain the phase changes observed by both types of monitor and which are quite significant. The underground data require that the component due to atmospheric temperature effects is negligibly small and that throughout the rigidity range covered by the recorder response, there is present an apparent anisotropy due to the orbital motion of the Earth around the Sun. Also the underground data roughly confirm the changes in upper limiting rigidity which were observed by the surface instruments. 相似文献
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The role of nearby galactic sources, the supernova remnants, in formation of observed energy spectrum and large-scale anisotropy of high-energy cosmic rays is studied. The list of these sources is made up based on radio, X-ray and gamma-ray catalogues. The distant sources are treated statistically as ensemble of sources with random positions and ages. The source spectra are defined based on the modern theory of cosmic ray acceleration in supernova remnants while the propagation of cosmic rays in the interstellar medium is described in the frameworks of galactic diffusion model. Calculations of dipole component of anisotropy are made to reproduce the experimental procedure of “two-dimensional” anisotropy measurements. The energy dependence of particle escape time in the process of acceleration in supernova remnants and the arm structure of sources defining the significant features of anisotropy are also taken into account. The essential new trait of the model is a decreasing number of core collapse SNRs being able to accelerate cosmic rays up to the given energy, that leads to steeper total cosmic ray source spectrum in comparison with the individual source spectrum. We explained simultaneously the new cosmic ray data on the fine structure of all particle spectrum around the knee and the amplitude and direction of the dipole component of anisotropy in the wide energy range 1 TeV–1 EeV. Suggested assumptions do not look exotic, and they confirm the modern understanding of cosmic ray origin. 相似文献