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Cosmic Ray Heating

Cosmic Ray Heating is a physical process in astrophysics whereby energetic charged particles, primarily of galactic origin, transfer energy to the diffuse interstellar medium through ionization and excitation of atoms and molecules, thereby increasing its thermal energy.

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Cosmic-Ray Heating of the Interstellar Gas

G. B. Field, Donald Goldsmith, H. J. Habing · The Astrophysical Journal · 1969 · 829 citations

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The Lateral and the Angular Structure Functions of Electron Showers

Koichi Kamata, Jun Nishimura · Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement · 1958 · 423 citations · Full text

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Three Unusual Cosmic-Ray Increases Possibly Due to Charged Particles from the Sun

Scott E. Forbush · Physical Review · 1946 · 407 citations

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Interpretation of Cosmic-Ray Phenomena

Bruno Rossi · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1948 · 373 citations

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Cosmic ray induced explosive chemical desorption in dense clouds

C. J. Shen, J. Mayo Greenberg, W. A. Schutte et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2004 · 298 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. AF
    Anastasia Fialkov

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 315 citations

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  2. EG
    Ellen G. Zweibel

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    5 publications · 431 citations

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  3. RB
    Rennan Barkana

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    5 publications · 295 citations

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  4. DG
    Donald Goldsmith

    Stanford University, United States

    5 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. CP
    Christoph Pfrommer

    Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany

    5 publications · 419 citations

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    10 h-index

    61 publications

    3.2K citations

  2. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    10 h-index

    22 publications

    983 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    17 publications

    895 citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    8 h-index

    62 publications

    2.9K citations

  5. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    19 publications

    993 citations

  6. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    Garching, Germany

    8 h-index

    17 publications

    1.4K citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    8 h-index

    21 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 60 publications · 4.3K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    38 publications · 2.6K citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    14 publications · 980 citations

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  4. Astroparticle Physics

    8 publications · 369 citations

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  5. Advances in Space Research

    7 publications · 238 citations

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