Energetic particle observations and the abundances of elements in the solar corona

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Energetic Particles, Ionization Potentials, Plasma Acceleration, Plasma Composition, Solar Corona, Abundance, Solar Activity, Solar Flares, Solar Wind Velocity, Time Dependence

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During the last few years it has become clear that energetic particles in the largest solar events, where abundances are commonly measured, are not accelerated in flares. Rather they are accelerated from the ambient plasma above active regions by shock waves driven by coronal mass ejections. The lowest energy particles from these events have abundances that almost directly reflect those of the source plasma. Residual effects of acceleration, that depend smoothly on the ion's corona Q/A, vanish when abundances are averaged over many events, yielding the characteristic dependence of the average coronal abundances of the First Ionization Potential (FIP) of the elements from H through Fe. In contrast, energetic ions accelerated out of the high speed solar wind from large coronal holes show a reduced FIP effect with a different pattern.

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