The heavy ion compositional signature in 3He-rich solar particle events

Details The heavy ion compositional signature in 3He-rich solar particle events The heavy ion compositional signature in 3He-rich solar particle events

Oct 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985stin...8617255m&link_type=abstract

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Heavy Ions, Heavy Nuclei, Helium Isotopes, Solar Cosmic Rays, Solar Flares, Abundance, International Sun Earth Explorers, Interplanetary Space, Particle Acceleration, Solar Corona

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A survey of the approx. 1 MeV/nucleon heavy ion abundances in 66 He3-rich solar particle events was performed using the Max-Planck-Institut/University of Maryland and Goddard Space Flight Center instruments on the ISEE-3 spacecraft. The observations were carried out in interplanetary space over the period 1978 October through 1982 June. Earlier observations were confirmed which show an enrichment of heavy ions in HE3-rich events, relative to the average solar energetic particle composition in large particle events. For the survey near 1.5 MeV/nucleon the enrichments compared to large solar particle events are approximately He4:C:O:Ne:Mg:Si:Fe = 0.44:0.66:1.:3.4:3.5:4.1:9.6. Surprising new results emerging from the present broad survey are that the heavy ion enrichment pattern is the same within a factor of approx. 2 for almost all cases, and the degree of heavy ion enrichment is uncorrelated with the He3 enrichment. Overall, the features established appear to be best explained by an acceleration mechanism in which the He3 enrichment process is not responsible for the heavy ion enrichment, but rather the heavy ion enrichment is a measure of the ambient coronal composition at the sites where the He3-rich events occur.

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