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The process of heliospheric modulation of intensity of galactic cosmic rays is investigated by solving the transport equation. The spatial-energetic distribution of cosmic rays in the present epoch and in the past is analyzed. It is demonstrated that the particle density and the energy density of cosmic rays in the Solar System in the distant past were much lower than the corresponding current values. The cosmic ray intensity modulation in the early heliosphere was especially strong in the case of low-energy particles.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.I. Fedorov, B.A. Shakhov, Yu.L. Kolesnyk, 2017, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2017, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 3–20.
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Fedorov, Y.I., Shakhov, B.A. & Kolesnyk, Y.L. Intensity of galactic cosmic rays in the early sun epoch. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 33, 1–12 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591317010032
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