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Special experiments performed aboard the space stations “Salyut-6”-“Soyuz”“Progress,” “Salyut-7”-“Soyuz T-13”-“Kosmos-1669,” and the artificial earth satellite “IK Bolgariya-1300” discovered, significant electron and positron fluxes with energies of more than decades of MeV in the earth's radiation belts. Spatial and angular characteristics of these fluxes have been studied. Study of the charge ratio of the electron-positron component has shown that it is electron-based. This indicates that in outer space near the earth some efficient mechanism capable of accelerating electrons to energies of more than decades of MeV exists.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 9, pp. 38–43, September, 1986.
The authors consider it their pleasant duty to express gratitude to V. M. Gracev, S. V. Koldashov, A. V. Popov, and S. E. Ulin for their preparation of the equipment and conduct of the experiments.
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Voronov, S.A., Gal'per, A.M., Dmitrenko, V.V. et al. High energy electrons in the earth's radiation belts. Soviet Physics Journal 29, 719–723 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895463
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