Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays on TerraPulse are organized into two dexes. Far from any accelerator, the galaxy sprays high-energy particles at Earth continuously; ground neutron monitors count the secondary particles that reach the surface. One dex holds the stations, the other the flux they measure. Every value is a real count. No models.
🌠 Stations held
64
🗂️ Dexes
2
📡 Provenance
NMDB
🌍 Family
Location + Year
The dexes
| Dex | Holds | Records |
|---|---|---|
neutron_monitor | Ground neutron-monitor stations, one slot per station | 64 |
cosmic_ray_flux | The measured cosmic-ray flux, as a continuous series | continuous |
The neutron_monitor dex is a roster of 64 stations; cosmic_ray_flux is the
continuous count-rate series those stations produce, carried as a series rather than
discrete slots.
Provenance
Both dexes trace to the Neutron Monitor Database (NMDB), the international archive that pools count rates from ground neutron monitors around the world. The flux series is derived directly from those station counts — nothing modeled is added.
What’s in a record
- Station identity — name and operating institution (station dex)
- Location — latitude, longitude, elevation, and geomagnetic cutoff rigidity (station dex)
- Count rate — the measured neutron count, corrected for pressure (flux series)
- Time — the timestamp of the reading