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Intensity of Cosmic Rays at the Initial Stage of a Solar Flare

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The propagation of solar cosmic rays in the interplanetary space is analyzed by solving the Fokker–Planck equation in the small-angle approximation. The particle source is assumed to be instantaneous and point-like. The spatiotemporal distribution of density of energetic particles in the anisotropic phase of a solar cosmic-ray enhancement is examined. Prolonged particle injection into the interplanetary medium is also discussed.

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Original Russian Text © Yu.I. Fedorov, 2018, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2018, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 3–20.

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Fedorov, Y.I. Intensity of Cosmic Rays at the Initial Stage of a Solar Flare. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 34, 1–12 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591318010038

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