Solar Flare and Solar-Interplanetary Phenomena Investigated With High-Energy Charged Particles

这笔赠款的中心目标是继续对太阳极地磁场极性反转引起的日球层中的大规模动力学现象进行实验和分析研究，并研究本太阳活动周期中的太阳耀斑带电粒子加速。第一个研究目标侧重于长期了解日地关系和控制高能粒子和等离子体在日光层中传播的太阳-星际电动力学现象。上述第一个目标的实验方法集中在作为日球层磁场探测器的带电粒子上，日球层磁场的起源是太阳风携带的贯穿日球层的太阳磁场。另一方面，太阳耀斑粒子加速的实验研究主要集中在从空间实验获得的耀斑的能谱和元素和同位素组成的测量上。这笔赠款继续支持两个中子监测设施，一个在科罗拉多州的阿塔克斯，另一个在秘鲁的万卡约。

The central objectives to this grant are to continue the experimental and analytical studies of the large scale dynamical phenomena in the heliosphere resulting from solar polar magnetic field polarity reversals, and to study solar flare charged particle acceleration in the present solar activity cycle. The first research objective is focussed on both the long term understanding of solar-terrestrial relationships and the solar- interplanetary electrodynamical phenomena which control the propagation of energetic particles and plasmas in the heliosphere. The experimental approach to the first objective above is focussed on charged particles as probes of the heliospheric magnetic fields, whose origin is the solar magnetic field carried throughout the heliosphere by the solar wind. On the other hand, the experimental investigations for solar flare particle acceleration are focussed on measurements of the energy spectrum and elemental and isotopic composition of the solar flares obtained form space experiments. The grant continues support for the two neutron monitor facilities, one at Climax, Colorado, and one at Huancayo, Peru.