Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1997
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American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #120.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1403
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The gamma -ray lines from (7) Be and (7) Li produced when flare-accelerated He nuclei interact with ambient He have been found to be surprisingly intense from measurements made by gamma -ray spectrometers on the SMM and COMPTON satellites (Share & Murphy 1997; Murphy et al. 1997). These high intensities suggest either accelerated alpha /p ratios \small> ~ \normalsize 0.5 and/or a He/H abundance >0.1 in the sub-coronal regions where the particles interact. Mandzhavidze, Ramaty, and Kozlovsky (1997) outline how the recently selected HESSI/SMEX high-resolution Ge spectrometer could distinguish between the two possibilities by resolving and comparing intensities of additional lines at 0.339, 1.00, 1.05 and 1.19 MeV produced by interactions of alpha -particles on Fe with the intensity of the 0.847 MeV line produced by proton interactions on Fe. They also note that the (16) O((3) He,p)(18) F(*) reaction produces lines at 0.937, 1.040 and 1.080 MeV which complicates the analysis but offers the possibility of making an in-situ measurement of accelerated (3) He in flares. We report on detailed spectroscopic studies of data from the moderate-resolution gamma -ray spectrometers on SMM and COMPTON to determine whether some constraints can already be placed on the accelerated and ambient He abundances. This work is supported by NASA DPR W-18895. Mandzhavidze, N., Ramaty, R., & Kozlovsky, B. 1997, ApJ, 489, L99. Murphy, R.J. & Share, G.H. 1997, ApJ, 490 (December). Share, G.H. & Murphy, R.J. 1997, ApJ, 485, 409.
Murphy Ronald J.
Share Gerald H.
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