Advances in space radiation physics and transport at NASA

JW Norbury, TC Slaba, S Aghara, FF Badavi… - Life Sciences in Space …, 2019 - Elsevier
The space radiation environment is a complex mixture of particle types and energies
originating from sources inside and outside of the galaxy. These environments may be …

The HELMOD model in the works for inner and outer heliosphere: from AMS to Voyager probes observations

MJ Boschini, S Della Torre, M Gervasi… - Advances in Space …, 2019 - Elsevier
H el M od is a Monte Carlo code developed to describe the transport of Galactic Cosmic
Rays (GCRs) through the heliosphere from the interstellar space to the Earth. In the current …

Modulation of galactic cosmic rays from helium to nickel in the inner heliosphere

ZN Shen, G Qin, P Zuo, F Wei - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) helium and heavier ions are important sources of space
radiation, and their elemental spectra and composition can help us better understand the …

Variations of the galactic cosmic rays in the recent solar cycles

S Fu, X Zhang, L Zhao, Y Li - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we study the Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) variations over the solar cycles 23 and
24, with measurements from NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer/Cosmic Ray Isotope …

[HTML][HTML] A Review on Radiation Environment Pathways to Impacts: Radiation Effects, Relevant Empirical Environment Models, and Future Needs

I Jun, H Garrett, W Kim, Y Zheng, SF Fung… - Advances in Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Space radiation affects every aspect of spacecraft design and operation. As a part
of the ISWAT (International Space Weather Actions Teams, http://iswat-cospar. org/) effort …

The transport of galactic cosmic rays in heliosphere: The HELMOD model compared with other commonly employed solar modulation models

MJ Boschini, S Della Torre, M Gervasi… - Advances in Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
HelMod model allows one to describe how solar modulation affects the propagation of
galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) through the heliosphere by solving the Parker transport …

Review of the particle background of the Athena X-IFU instrument

S Lotti, M D'Andrea, S Molendi, C Macculi… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray observations are limited by the background, due to the intrinsic faintness or diffuse
nature of the sources. The future Athena X-ray observatory has among its goals the …

A brief history of space climatology: From the big bang to the present

M Xapsos - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Review of space climatology is presented with a view toward spacecraft electronics
applications. The origins and abundances of space radiations are discussed and related to …

A Comprehensive Comparison of Various Galactic Cosmic-Ray Models to the State-of-the-art Particle and Radiation Measurements

W Liu, J Guo, Y Wang, TC Slaba - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are the slowly varying background energetic particles that
originate outside the solar system, are modulated by the heliospheric magnetic field, and …

Studies on cosmic-ray nuclei with Voyager, ACE, and AMS-02. I. Local interstellar spectra and solar modulation

CR Zhu, Q Yuan, DM Wei - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The acceleration of cosmic-ray particles and their propagation in the Milky Way and the
heliosphere tangle with each other, leading to complexity and degeneracy of the modeling …