On the latitude dependence of the semidiurnal anisotropy of cosmic rays |
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| Authors: | MF Tolba |
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| Institution: | Cosmic Ray Group, Physics Department, Faculty of Science Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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