Neon composition in solar flares

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Nov 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981georl...8.1143v&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 8, Nov. 1981, p. 1143-1146.

Physics

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Chemical Composition, Neon, Solar Flares, Feldspars, Long Term Effects, Lunar Rocks, Lunar Soil, Lunar Surface, Planetary Composition, Solar Wind

Scientific paper

Using lunar samples as probes, experimental studies are carried out to obtain the long-term average solar flare neon composition. To disentangle the mixed records of solar wind and solar flare in these samples, feldspar grainsize separates of several lunar soils are chemically etched; this removes the low-energy surface-correlated solar wind ions (a few keV/nucleon), which in turn enriches the deep-sited high-energy solar flare (a few MeV/nucleon) component in the etched samples. In addition, rock samples from top-surface and interior positions of two well-documented lunar rocks are analyzed to decipher the solar wind and solar flare neon compositions. The results show that the long-term average composition of low-energy (0.1 to 20 MeV/nucleon) solar-flare-implanted neon is similar to solar wind neon, not neon of planetary type.

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