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Was the cosmic ray burst detected by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope on 22 June 2015 caused by a transient weakening of the geomagnetic field or by an interplanetary anisotropy?

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dc.contributor.author SUBRAMANIAN, PRASAD en_US
dc.contributor.author Mohanty, P.K. et al. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2019-09-09T11:35:44Z
dc.date.available 2019-09-09T11:35:44Z
dc.date.issued 2018-04 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Physical Review D, 97(8), 082001. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2470-0010 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2470-0029 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3955
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.082001 en_US
dc.description.abstract The GRAPES-3 muon telescope in Ooty, India had claimed detection of a 2 hour (h) high-energy ( ∼ 20     GeV ) burst of galactic cosmic-rays (GCRs) through a > 50 σ surge in GeV muons, was caused by reconnection of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) in the magnetosphere that led to transient weakening of Earth’s magnetic shield. This burst had occurred during a G4-class geomagnetic storm (storm) with a delay of 1 2 h relative to the coronal mass ejection (CME) of 22 June 2015 [P. K. Mohanty et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 171101 (2016)]. However, recently a group interpreted the occurrence of the same burst in a subset of 31 neutron monitors (NMs) to have been the result of an anisotropy in interplanetary space [P. Evenson et al., Proc. Sci., ICRC2017 (2017) 133] in contrast to the claim in P. K. Mohanty et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 171101 (2016)]. A new analysis of the GRAPES-3 data with a fine 10.6° angular segmentation shows the speculation of interplanetary anisotropy to be incorrect, and offers a possible explanation of the NM observations. The observed 28 minutes (min) delay of the burst relative to the CME can be explained by the movement of the reconnection front from the bow shock to the surface of Earth at an average speed of 35     km / s , much lower than the CME speed of 700     km / s . This measurement may provide a more accurate estimate of the start of the storm. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher American Physical Society en_US
dc.subject Muon telescope en_US
dc.subject Ooty en_US
dc.subject Interpreted the occurrence en_US
dc.subject NM observations en_US
dc.subject 2018 en_US
dc.title Was the cosmic ray burst detected by the GRAPES-3 muon telescope on 22 June 2015 caused by a transient weakening of the geomagnetic field or by an interplanetary anisotropy? en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.contributor.department Dept. of Physics en_US
dc.identifier.sourcetitle Physical Review D en_US
dc.publication.originofpublisher Foreign en_US


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