The Ground Level Event 70 on December 13th, 2006 and Related Effective Doses at Aviation Altitudes
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2009

The 70th ground level event in the records of the Neutron Monitor network occurred on 13 December 2006 reaching a maximum count rate increase at the Oulu station of more than 90% during the 5 min interval 3.05-3.10 UTC. Thereafter, count rates gradually decreased registering increases of a few per cent above the galactic cosmic ray background after a few hours. The primary proton spectrum during the first 6 h after the onset of the event is characterised in this work by fitting the energy and angular distribution by a power law in rigidity and a linear dependence in the pitch angle using a minimisation technique. The results were obtained by analysing the data from 28 Neutron Monitor stations. At very high northern and southern latitudes, the effective dose rates were estimated to reach values of 25-30 mu Sv h(-1) at atmospheric depth of 200 g cm(-2) during the maximum of the event. The increase in effective dose during north atlantic and polar flights was estimated to be in the order of 20 %.

Författare

Daniel Matthiä

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

B. Heber

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

G. Reitz

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

Lembit Sihver

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Nukleär teknik

T. Berger

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

M Meier

Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

0144-8420 (ISSN) 17423406 (eISSN)

Vol. 136 4 304-310 ncp141

Ämneskategorier

Subatomär fysik

Fysik

DOI

10.1093/rpd/ncp141

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