Latitudinal and radial gradients of galactic cosmic ray protons in the inner heliosphere - PAMELA and Ulysses observations

Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-434

  De Simone, N ^a   Di Felice, V ^a   Gieseler, J ^c   Boezio, M ^b   Casolino, M ^a   Picozza, P ^a   Heber, B ^c   Adriani, O ^d,e   Barbarino, G C ^f,g   Bazilevskaya, G A ^h   Bellotti, R ^i,j   Bogomolov, E A ^l   Bonechi, L ^d,e   Bongi, M ^e   Bonvicini, V ^k   Borisov, S ^a,m,n   Bottai, S ^e   Bruno, A ^i,j   Cafagna, F ^j   Campana, D ^g   Carbone, R ^a,g   Carlson, P ^o   Castellini, G ^p   Consiglio, L ^g   De Pascale, M P ^a,m   De Santis, C ^a,m   Galper, A M ⁿ   Gillard, W ^o   Grishantseva, L ⁿ   Hofverberg, P ^o   Jerse, G ^b,k   Karelin, A V ⁿ   Koldashov, S V ⁿ   Krutkov, S Y ^l   Kvashnin, A N ^h   Leonov, A ⁿ   Malvezzi, V ^m   Marcelli, L ^m   Martucci, M ^a,m   Mayorov, A G ⁿ   Menn, W ^q   Mikhailov, V V ⁿ   Mocchiutti, E ^k   Monaco, A ^i,j   Mori, N ^e   Nikonov, N ^a,l,m   Osteria, G ^g   Palma, F ^a,m   Papini, P ^e   Pearce, M ^o   Pizzolotto, C ^k   Ricci, M ^r   Ricciarini, S B ^e   Rossetto, L ^o   Simon, M ^q   Sparvoli, R ^a,m   Spillantini, P ^d,e   Stozhkov, Y I ^h   Vacchi, A ^k   Vannuccini, E ^e   Vasilyev, G ^l   Voronov, S A ⁿ   Wu, J ^o,s   Yurkin, Y T ⁿ   Zampa, G ^k   Zampa, N ^k   Zverev, V G ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e INFN SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^g INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^h LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^j INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^k SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^l IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^m INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

ⁿ NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^o OSKAR KLEIN CENTRE   (Sweden)

^p IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^r INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^s CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 80053243202     PISSN: 18106528     EISSN: 18106536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/astra-7-425-2011     Document Type: Article

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