Effects of geomagnetic secular variations on cosmic ray access to the terrestrial environment |
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Authors: | M Storini P Metteo G Moreno |
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Institution: | 1. IFSI-INAF, Research Area of Roma-Tor Vergata, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy;2. Department of Physics, La Sapienza University, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy |
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Abstract: | Taking advantage of the cutoff computations performed for more than a hundred locations from 1955 to 1995 every 5 years; Shea, M.A., Smart, D.F. Vertical cutoff rigidities for cosmic ray stations since 1955, in: Proceedings of the ICRC 2001, Hamburg, Copernicus Gesellschaft, vol. 10, pp. 4063–4066, 2001], we carefully checked the relationship between the vertical cutoff rigidity and the McIlwain parameter introduced by Shea et al. Shea, M.A., Smart, D.F., Gentile, L.C. Estimating cosmic ray vertical cutoff rigidities as a function of the McIlwain L-parameter for different epochs of the geomagnetic field. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 48, 200–205, 1987]. We derived an updated algorithm that can be used outside the polar and equatorial regions, avoiding time consuming computations. Results for the European area and 1990 epoch suggest that the fast evaluation is accurate within 0.1 GV in 26 out of the 30 considered locations. |
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Keywords: | Cosmic rays Geomagnetic shielding Cutoff rigidities |
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