16.1.1} The AMS All-Particle Spectrum

 The ion composition of the Local Interstellar Medium (LIS) is derived from the
 most recent AMS02 data as described in [DTL22] for all elemental groups 
 from Z = 1 to Z = 28. In some cases, indvidual isotopes for the same Z
 are explicitly treated as such. A code [Bad96] is then used to apply the 
 solar modulation to the LIS spectra.
 The spectrum components are written into 33 files. The name of the files
 has the form (Z+A+phi+<PhiMV>+.spc). The first two characters of each file 
 name are the atomic number of a different primary spectrum ion 
 (e.g. 01:protons, 02:alpha...). The following two characters determine its 
 mass number, zero means natural isotopic composition.  They are followed by 
 the solar modulation parameter used for generating the spectrum (7 characters)
 and by an extension ".spc".
 The ".spc" files are spectra without geomagnetic cutoff. The ".spc"
 files are used together with various analytical approximations of the rigidity
 cutoff, according to an offset or centered dipole approximation of the Earth 
 geomagnetic field, adapted to result in the vertical cutoff inserted into 
 the input file (SPECSOUR command, 
SDUM
=GCR-AMS, 
WHAT(2)
 of the continuation 
 card), at the geomagnetic latitude and longitude of interest.

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