Published January 1983 | Version v1
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A method for determining the age of cosmic rays in the galaxy

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Space Physics, Academia Sinica

Description

This paper presents a way to determine the age of cosmic rays in the galaxy by using the data on the ratio of the abundance of manganese to iron from the Danish-French isotope instrument on board HEAO-3. The leaky-box model and the exponential path-length distribution have been adopted in this paper

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chin. Phys.
Journal Volume
3
Journal Issue
1
Series
Chin. Phys.
Journal Page Range
79-85

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
14781512
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
AGE ESTIMATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOCHEMISTRY; IRON; MANGANESE
Descriptors DEC
CHEMISTRY; ELEMENTS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; METALS; RADIATIONS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS