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Volume 148, Number 1, October 2024
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Article Number | 19001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ad7e4c | |
Published online | 08 October 2024 |
Influence of magnetosphere disturbances on particle fluxes measured by ground-based detectors
Yerevan Physics Institute - Alikhanyan Brothers 2, Yerevan, AM0036, Armenia
Received: 9 June 2024
Accepted: 23 September 2024
This study examines how the Earth's surface particle fluxes are modulated by the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) carried by coronal mass ejections (ICME). Our findings underscore the role of magnetic reconnection in allowing low-energy galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) to penetrate the magnetosphere, leading to enhanced secondary particle fluxes through reduced cutoff rigidity —a phenomenon known as the magnetospheric effect (ME). In contrast, the Forbush decrease (FD) driven by the scalar magnetic field strength results in significant particle flux reductions. On May 10–11, 2024, the FD, directly linked to the enormous geomagnetic storm (GMS), was complicated by the simultaneous registration of secondary particles from the solar energetic particle (SEP) event, which was energetic enough to generate secondary particles in space and on the ground, leading to increases in detector count rates, known as ground-level enhancements (GLEs). Using new experimental facilities, we reveal that secondary particles during ME events release up to 10 MeV energy (maximum energy of approximately 10 MeV), whereas, during FD and GLE events, the energy release extends to 100 MeV (maximum energy of approximately 100 MeV). These insights contribute to refining event classification schemes and predictive models of space weather.
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