Cosmogenic 10Be as a Tracer for Recent Heliospheric Encounters with Interstellar Cold Clouds
Recent works suggest there are periods when the Sun encountered massive interstellar cold clouds which compressed the heliosphere to within Earth's orbit. This would expose Earth to increased galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and energetic particles of heliospheric origin (HEPs). We model 10Be production in Earth's atmosphere during...