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1 Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI USA.

A Study of the Correlation Between GOES-15 Satellite Data and Cosmic Ray Incidence Kandiah Balachandran 1 , Orlando Buria 2 , Laura Forbes 3. 1 Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI USA. 2 West Seneca Christian School, West Seneca, NY USA.

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1 Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI USA.

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  1. A Study of the Correlation Between GOES-15 Satellite Data and Cosmic Ray IncidenceKandiah Balachandran1, Orlando Buria2, Laura Forbes 3 1 Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI USA. 2 West Seneca Christian School, West Seneca, NY USA. 3. MOISD Math Science Technology Center, Big Rapids, MI USA Introduction Results And Analysis The origin of cosmic rays is not well understood. It was suspected that solar emissions might interact with Earth’s magnetic field in such a way as to affect the influx of cosmic rays. Figure 7 http://www.boeing.com/Features/2011/01/img/bds_feat_artist_rendering_satellites_lives_300.jpg GOES 15 Satellite in Orbit Photo Credit: http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/next-generation-weather-satellite-goes-o1.jpg Conclusion Figure 1 Solar Flare Photograph Taken by GOES 15 Satellite Figure 4 Photo Credit: http://sxi.ngdc.noaa.gov/images/SXI_20120709_075600169_BA_15.PNG sCRD Count/Long Wave Correlation Figure 8 Hypotheses H0: There is no correlation (α=0.10) between solar emission intensity and cosmic ray incidence. H1: There is significant correlation (α=0.10) between solar emission intensity and cosmic ray incidence. Interval Correlation Table No significant correlation (α=0.10) between cosmic ray count and solar emission intensity was detected. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis H1, that there is significant correlation (α=0.10) between solar emission intensity and cosmic ray incidence, was rejected. Methodology A small cosmic ray detector (sCRD) was set up in a quiet corner of a seminar room in the NSCL building. Settings used included buzzer off, coincidence, and infinite count mode. A ThinkpadTM with a built-in webcam was positioned so as to record the sCRD display data for a period of 10 hours. The sCRD was switched from clear to count mode and the webcam was activated at 5PM ET on Tuesday 8/31/2012. Proposal for Future Studies Figure 2 Figure 5 Since variations in the solar activity were minimal during the project data collection period, the study should be repeated during a time of predicted high solar emission intensity. The figure just above depicts GOES 15 satellite data from a 3-day window that includes the period of data collection used in the current study. Note the difference in scale between Figures 5 and 6 . Chart Credit: http://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/goes/data/new_plots/special ExtremeEvent_20120304-00h_20120317-24h.jpg Figure 6 Figure 3 The figure just above depicts GOES 15 satellite data from a high high solar activity time period. Note the difference in scale between Figures 5 and 6 . sCRDand Laptop Setup

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