The Source of the 2017 Cosmic-ray Half-year Modulation Event

In 2017, as the solar cycle approached solar minimum, an unusually long and large depression was observed in galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) protons, detected with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, lasting for the second half of that year. The depression, as seen in the Bartel-rotation-averaged proton flux...

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Main Authors: O. P. M. Aslam, D. MacTaggart, R. Battiston, M. S. Potgieter, M. D. Ngobeni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adb61c