A database of charged cosmic rays

• Published in: Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) Vol. 569; pp. A32 - 13
• Main Authors: Maurin, D., Melot, F., Taillet, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 01.09.2014
• Subjects: astronomical databases: miscellaneous; astroparticle physics; Astrophysics; Charging; cosmic rays; Documents; Flight; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic; Kinetic energy; Online; Physics; Queries; Sciences of the Universe; solar neighborhood; Websites
• ISSN: 0004-6361; 1432-0746
• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321344

Aims. This paper gives a description of a new online database and associated online tools (data selection, data export, plots, etc.) for charged cosmic-ray measurements. The experimental setups (type, flight dates, techniques) from which the data originate are included in the database, along with the references to all relevant publications. Methods. The database relies on the MySQL5 engine. The web pages and queries are based on PHP, AJAX and the jquery, jquery.cluetip, jquery-ui, and table-sorter third-party libraries. Results. In this first release, we restrict ourselves to Galactic cosmic rays with Z ≤ 30 and a kinetic energy per nucleon up to a few tens of TeV/n. This corresponds to more than 200 different sub-experiments (i.e., different experiments, or data from the same experiment flying at different times) in as many publications. Conclusions. We set up a cosmic-ray database (CRDB) and provide tools to sort and visualise the data. New data can be submitted, providing the community with a collaborative tool to archive past and future cosmic-ray measurements.