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Molecules in Comets: A Tool to Estimate the Low Energy Cosmic Ray Flux Outside the Solar System?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Valerio Pirronello
Valerio Pirronello*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Catania, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania Viale A. Doria, I-95125 Catania Italy

Abstract

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It is described a method for evaluating the low energy cosmic ray flux outside the heliosphere. It is based on the chemical modifications induced in cometary nuclei by impinging ions and on the release of synthesized chemical species by comets entering for the first time into the inner solar system.

Type
Comets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 120: Astrochemistry , 1987 , pp. 443 - 445
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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