Aplicação de mineração de dados na avaliação da relação entre tempestades geomagnéticas e muons

Abstract

The geomagnetic storms have been a recurring subject of study in the area of Space Weather, due to the consequences that they, in large amounts, can bring to the Earth‟s surface. Coronal Mass Ejections are potential causes of these phenomena and can cause significant variations in the intensity of secondary cosmic rays, such as muons. The National Institute for Space Research participates of the Global Muon Detector Network by a Multidirectional Muon Detector (MMD), located at the Southern Space Observatory. This instrument performs the counting of muons incidence in the atmosphere at various directional channels. This study aims to apply data mining algorithms to count data from the MMD to enable the discovery of patterns, verifying the associativity of the muons to geomagnetic.