Forbush effect

Forbush effect

      in astronomy, an occasional decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays as observed on Earth, attributed to magnetic effects produced by solar flares (solar flare), which are disturbances on the Sun. The effect was discovered in 1937 by the American physicist Scott E. Forbush. Its cause became clearer in 1960, when, while the unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 5 was in flight some 5,000,000 km (3,000,000 miles) from Earth, a solar flare occurred, followed by an observation on Earth of the Forbush effect. Data from the probe indicated that the cause of the Forbush effect is a thin, hot plasma (of highly ionized gas) emitted by the Sun and carrying with it a tongue or lobe of the Sun's magnetic field as far as Earth; this magnetic field tends to deflect away from Earth the electrically charged particles making up primary cosmic rays.

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