A model for heavy ion enhancements in association with 3He-rich events

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A model of 3He enrichments, which was proposed recently, is extended to study enhancements of heavy ions in high-energy particles. With weak currents parallel to the ambient magnetic field, oblique ion-acoustic waves and H cyclotron waves can become unstable. The former can have much greater growth rates at frequencies ω ≈ Ω3 He than at ω ≈ Ω4 He near the marginal states of instabilities. The latter can be unstable at ω ≈ Ω3 He for a wide region of plasma parameters. Thus they could cause 3He enrichments through cyclotron resonances. At the same time, these waves can resonate with first or higher harmonics of cyclotron frequencies of many other ions. We investigate these resonant ions for several cases of plasma temperature. This model predicts enhancements of heavy elements and of neutron-rich isotopes at T ≈ 10 MK. It shows heavy ion enhancements also at T ≈ 4 MK. Clear differences between these two temperatures, however, can be seen in charge states of ions. At T ≈ 2 MK, light ions as well as heavy ions can have cyclotron resonances with these waves, which suggests that such low temperatures are excluded.

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