Perturbations to aquatic photosynthesis due to high-energy cosmic ray induced muon flux in the extragalactic shock model

International Journal of Astrobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 326-330

  Rodriguez, Lien ^a   Cardenas, Rolando ^a   Rodriguez, Oscar ^b  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF LAS VILLAS   (Cuba)

^b Instituto Superior de Tecnologias y Ciencias Aplicadas InSTEC   (Cuba)

Author keywords

extragalactic shock model; muons; photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY; HIGH ENERGY ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84884538638     PISSN: 14735504     EISSN: 14753006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1473550413000219     Document Type: Article

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