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Acceleration of the anomalous component of cosmic rays revisited

Hilchenbach, M.; Kallenbach, R.; Bamert, K.

In the years 2004 and 2007, the instruments onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft delivered unprecedented data on the structure of the solar wind termination shock. This shock has been assumed to be responsible for the acceleration of the anomalous component of cosmic rays from a pick-up ion seed population derived from the interstellar neutral g…