Calcium Abundance in the Solar Wind

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Jan 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003apj...583..489w&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 583, Issue 1, pp. 489-495.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sun: Solar Wind

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We report on the calcium abundance in the solar wind for an extended time period around the 1996 solar minimum. Data were recorded with the Mass Time-of-Flight (MTOF) sensor of the Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System (CELIAS) instrument on the SOHO spacecraft. The Ca/O abundance is 0.017+/-0.003 for slow solar wind (VSW<400 km s-1) and 0.0053+/-0.0014 for fast solar wind (VSW>500 km s-1). Compared to the photospheric Ca/O abundance ratio of (Ca/O)PS=0.00421+/-0.00079, the solar wind clearly shows strong first ionization potential (FIP) fractionation as is expected for a low-FIP element. The Ca/H abundance is ACa=6.63+/-0.05 and ACa=6.21+/-0.10 for slow and fast solar winds, respectively. For comparison, the photospheric Ca abundance is ACa=6.36+/-0.02.

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