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

本研究旨在继续对太阳极磁场极性反转引起的日球层大尺度动力学现象进行实验和分析研究，并研究太阳耀斑带电粒子在当前太阳活动周期中的加速现象。第一个目标将集中于带电粒子作为日球层磁场的探测器，其起源是太阳风在整个日球层携带的太阳磁场。第二个目标将包括利用从航天器数据中获得的太阳耀斑的能谱以及元素和同位素组成的测量，对太阳耀斑粒子加速进行实验研究。这两个目标都需要大量使用中子监测器和来自若干航天器上仪器网络的数据。因此，拟议的研究将包括继续操作和维护在CO . Climax和秘鲁万卡约的中子监测站，并可能在夏威夷毛伊岛增加一个新站。后一个站点最终将取代秘鲁的站点。

This investigation is designed to continue experimental and analytical studies of the large scale dynamical phenomena in the heliosphere resulting from the solar polar magnetic field polarity reversals , and to study solar flare charged particle acceleration in the present solar cycle. The first objective will focus on charged particles as probes of heliospheric magnetic fields, whose origin is the solar magnetic field carried throughout the heliosphere by the solar wind. The second objective will consist of experimental investigations for solar flare particle acceleration using measurements of the energy spectrum and elemental and isotopic composition of the solar flares obtained from spacecraft data. Both objectives will require extensive use of neutron monitors and of data from a network of instruments aboard several spacecraft. The proposed research will therefore include continued operation and maintenance of neutron monitoring stations at Climax, CO and Huancayo, Peru, with the possible addition of a new station in Maui, Hawaii. This latter station will eventually replace the one in Peru.