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Pulsars and Local Cosmic Ray Prehistory

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Pulsars have ages and distances which, if they are supernova remnants, would make them significant sources of local cosmic rays during the last 106 years.

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LINGENFELTER, R. Pulsars and Local Cosmic Ray Prehistory. Nature 224, 1182–1186 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241182a0

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