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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 647, 期 1, 页码 L65-L68出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/507469
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acceleration of particles; cosmic rays; interplanetary medium; Sun : abundances; Sun : flares
Using high-sensitivity instruments on the ACE spacecraft, we have examined the intensities of O and Fe in 14 large solar energetic particle events whose parent activity was in the solar western hemisphere. Sampling the intensities at low (similar to 273 keV nucleon(-1)) and high (similar to 12 MeV nucleon(-1)) energies, we find that at the same kinetic energy per nucleon, the Fe/O ratio decreases with time, as has been reported previously. This behavior is seen in more than 70% of the cases during the rise to maximum intensity and continues in most cases into the decay phase. We find that for most events if we compare the Fe intensity with the O intensity at a higher kinetic energy per nucleon, the two time-intensity profiles are strikingly similar. Examining alternate scenarios that could produce this behavior, we conclude that for events showing this behavior the most likely explanation is that the Fe and O share similar injection profiles near the Sun, and that scattering in the interplanetary medium dominates the profiles observed at 1 AU.
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