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McCarthy & O’Gallagher 1976
McCarthy, J. and O’Gallagher, J.J. (1976). The radial variation of solar flare proton anisotropies observed in deep space on Pioneers 10 and 11. Geophysical Research Letters 3: doi: 10.1029/GL003i002p00053. issn: 0094-8276.

The anisotropy of solar flare protons (>3 MeV) evaluated at the time of maximum for each of 24 events measured by the University of Chicago experiments on Pioneers 10 and 11 is observed to decrease gradually between 1 and 4.7 a.u. Since diffusive streaming is related directly to the effective diffusion coefficient parallel to the interplanetary spiral magnetic field (K), these observations provide a measure of the radial dependence of interplanetary diffusion parameters. An analysis of these results suggests that K increases gradually with r consistent with a radial dependence given by K(r) = (8¿3) ¿1021 cm2/sec r0.9¿.4(r in a.u.).

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