Gamma rays from grazing incidence cosmic rays in the earth's atmosphere
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Gamma-Rays from Grazing Incidence Cosmic Rays in the Earth's Atmosphere
Interactions of grazing incidence, ultra high energy cosmic rays with the earth's atmosphere may provide a new method of studying energetic cosmic rays with gammaray satellites. It is found that these cosmic ray interactions may produce gamma-rays on millisecond time scales which may be detectable by satellites. An extremely low gamma-ray background for transient gamma-ray events and a large ar...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/187422