Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990cpmd.rept.....i&link_type=abstract
Final Report Maryland Univ., College Park. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Abundance, Atmospheric Physics, Cosmic Rays, Particle Energy, Photons, Solar Wind, X Ray Astronomy, Alpha Particles, Bow Waves, Charged Particles, Energy Spectra, Gamma Rays, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Ionization Potentials, Magnetic Storms, Magnetosheath, Photosphere, Protons, Ring Currents, Spaceborne Experiments
Scientific paper
The Univ. of Maryland portion investigated the following areas. The Space Physics Group performed studies of data from the AMPTE/CCE spacecraft CHEM experiment and found that the ratio of solar wind to photospheric abundances decreased rather smoothly with the first ionization potential (FIP) of the ion with the low FIP ion being about a factor of two overabundant. Carbon and hydrogen fit this trend particularly well. Several occurrences were analyzed of field aligned beams observed when CCE was upstream of the Earth's bow shock. Also using CHEM data, ring current intensity and composition changes during the main and recovery phases of the great geomagnetic storm that occurred in February 1986 was examined in detail. Still using CHEM data, ring current characteristics were examined in a survey of 20 magnetic storms ranging in size from -50 nT to -312 nT. A study was done of energetic ion anisotropy characteristics in the Earth's magnetosheath region using data from the UMD/MPE experiment on ISEE-1. The properties were analyzed of approx. 30 to 130 keV/e protons and alpha particles upstream of six quasi-parallel interplanetary shocks that passed by the ISEE-3 spacecraft during 1978 to 1979. Work from NASA-Goddard include studies from the High Energy Cosmic Ray Group, Low Energy Cosmic Ray Group, Low Energy Gamma Ray Group, High Energy Astrophysics Theory Group, and the X ray Astronomy Group.
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