METHOD OF DETECTING HELIOSPHERIC PERTURBATIONS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC G21H7/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: penetrating component of cosmic rays on the Earth's surface is detected by one coordinate-track detector simultaneously from all directions of the celestial hemisphere. A flux density matrix if formed, which is a two-dimensional array whose cells contain the number of tracks detected in a defined angle interval per unit time. A reference flux density matrix if formed first, relative which, based on data of the next detection periods, flux density variation matrices are formed, which indicate relative changes in the stream of particles from different directions. Every such flux density variation matrix is displayed in a geocentric coordinate system using asymptotic directions of protons. Asymptotic directions are found and by transformation from the geocentric coordinate system to any geocentric solar system, for example a geocentric solar ecliptic (GSE) system using variation matrices, the image of the state of the heliosphere is formed.

EFFECT: possibility of monitoring the behaviour of heliospheric perturbations with few detectors.

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