Measurement of the cosmic-ray energy spectrum and composition from 1017 to 1018.3 eV using a hybrid technique

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 557, Issue 2 PART 1, 2001, Pages 686-699

  Abu Zayyad, T ^a   Belov, K ^a   Bird, D J ^b   Boyer, J ^c   Cao, Z ^a   Catanese, M ^d   Chen, G F ^a   Clay, R W ^b   Covault, C E ^e   Dai, H Y ^a   Dawson, B R ^b   Elbert, J W ^a   Fick, B E ^e   Fortson, L F ^e,f   Fowler, J W ^e   Gibbs, K G ^e   Glasmacher, M A K ^g   Green, K D ^e   Ho, Y ^h   Huang, A ^a   Jui, C C ^a   Kidd, M J ⁱ   Kieda, D B ^a   Knapp, B C ^c   Ko, S ^a   Larsen, C G ^a   Lee, W ^h   Loh, E C ^a   Mannel, E J ^c   Matthews, J ^j,k   Matthews, J N ^a   Newport, B J ^e   Nitz, D F ^l   Ong, R A ^e   Simpson, K M ^b   Smith, J D ^a   Sinclair, D ⁱ   Sokolsky, P ^a   Sommers, P ^a   Song, C ^h   Tang, J K K ^a   Thomas, S B ^a   Van Der Velde, J C ^g   Wiencke, L R ^a   Wilkinson, C R ^b   Yoshida, S ^a   Zhang, X Z ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h Univ Illinois at Champaign Urbana ^*  (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^j LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; ISM: abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035921205     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322240     Document Type: Article

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