Constraints on the FIP Mechanisms from Solar Wind Abundance Data

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May 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998ssrv...85..241g&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, v. 85, Issue 1/2, p. 241-252 (1998).

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In the slow solar wind, elements with (first) ionisation potential (FIP) between ˜10 eV and 22 eV are depleted by a factor of about 4 relative to their abundances in the Outer Convective Zone (OCZ), and helium (FIP = 24.5 eV) is further depleted by a factor of ˜1.8. This depletion, called the FIP effect, is much less pronounced in the high speed streams coming out of coronal holes. The systematics of element depletion suggests that the FIP effect is produced at a temperature ˜104 K and that it is controlled by the time of ionisation at the solar surface. At the boundary of the polar coronal holes, the transition from a strong to a weak FIP effect is relatively sharp and coincides with the change in coronal electron temperature, indicating a profound change in coronal as well as chromospheric properties at this boundary.

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