The effect of solar wind latitudinal dependence on the cosmic-ray propagation in the heliosphere |
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| Authors: | L M Georgiev S P Kavlakov J R Popov |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Abstract: | We have investigated how the latitude dependence of the solar wind velocity (SWV) influenced the cosmic-ray (CR) modulation and distribution in the heliosphere. The dependence proposed by Fry and Akasofu (1987) is used:v
SW=v
O+v
1(1-cos
n
m
, where the SWV,v
SW is a function of the heliomagnetic latitude
m
andv
0 andv
1 are constants. An estimation of the diffusion and drift terms in the transport equation is made, which shows that towards the poles the effects of the drift transfer decrease, while the diffusion terms in the equation increase due to the change of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) geometry. The numerical solutions of the two-dimensional (2-D) transport equation show that when the SWV changes with latitude: (1) The CR intensities away from the neutral sheet are larger for both IMF polarity periods in comparison with the case when the SWV does not change with the latitude. (2) The latitude gradients are negative during negative magnetic polarity periods. (3) The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 long-time observations showing greater galactic CR intensities nearer the Sun at greater distances, could be explained by the proposed model. |
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