Sentences with phrase «large galactic cosmic ray»

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The GRAPES - 3 muon telescope, the largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicated a crack in the Earth's magnetic shield.

The production of nitric oxide (NO) in the stratosphere during each of the solar proton events of November 1960, September 1966, and August 1972 is calculated to have been comparable to or larger than the total average annual production of NO by the action of galactic cosmic rays.

At the same time, the sensor detected a dramatic rise in the numbers of intense galactic cosmic rays that originate far beyond our solar system — the largest such jump since the craft was launched, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

Once Ulysses was in its scheduled orbit, it began observing the solar wind and magnetic field strength at high solar latitudes, finding that the solar wind from high latitudes was moving at about 750 km / s (slower than expected), and that there were large magnetic waves emerging from high latitudes which scattered galactic cosmic rays.

While other objects in the universe generate cosmic rays, most probably active galactic nuclei located far beyond our own Milky Way galaxy, supernovae in our own galactic neighborhood are thought to produce a large fraction of the cosmic rays that impact Earth.

It doesn't leave much room for influences from the PDO, or galactic cosmic rays, or a larger - than - previously - realised solar forcing, or... you get the picture.