The Coronal Isotopic Composition as Determined Using Solar Energetic Particles

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Sep 2003

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SOLAR WIND TEN: Proceedings of the Tenth International Solar Wind Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 679, pp. 616-6

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Particle Emission, Solar Wind, Composition, Solar Wind Plasma, Sources Of Solar Wind

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Solar energetic particles (SEPs), like the solar wind, provide a direct sample of the Sun. Although SEP abundances show a variable amount of mass fractionation, it is possible to develop methods of correcting for it in order to deduce the composition of the corona. Using high-resolution measurements from the Solar Isotope Spectrometer on the Advanced Composition Explorer, we have studied the isotopic composition of 10 abundant elements from C to Ni in 32 large SEP events from late 1997 to the end of 2001 at energies >15 MeV/nucleon. We show that various isotopic and elemental enhancements are correlated with each other, discuss the first order corrections used to account for the variability, and obtain estimated coronal abundances. We compare the coronal values and their uncertainties inferred from SEPs with those that are available from solar wind and meteoritic measurements and find generally good agreement. We include C and Ni isotopic abundances, for which no solar wind measurements have yet been reported.

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