期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 789, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/60
关键词
solar wind; Sun: abundances; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: evolution; Sun: heliosphere
资金
- NASA [NNX13AH66G, NNX10AQ61G, NNX09AH72G, NNX10AQ58G, NNX13AG22G]
- International Space Science Institute (ISSI)
- NASA [123944, NNX09AH72G, NNX10AQ58G, 474823, NNX13AG22G, 473206, NNX13AH66G, 117912, 122871, NNX10AQ61G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Using in situ ion spectrometry data from ACE/SWICS, we determine the solar wind Ne/O elemental abundance ratio and examine its dependence on wind speed and evolution with the solar cycle. We find that Ne/O is inversely correlated with wind speed, is nearly constant in the fast wind, and correlates strongly with solar activity in the slow wind. In fast wind streams with speeds above 600 km s(-1), we find Ne/O = 0.10 +/- 0.02, in good agreement with the extensive polar observations by Ulysses/SWICS. In slow wind streams with speeds below 400 km s-1, Ne/O ranges from a low of 0.12 +/- 0.02 at solar maximum to a high of 0.17 +/- 0.03 at solar minimum. These measurements place new and significant empirical constraints on the fractionation mechanisms governing solar wind composition and have implications for the coronal and photospheric abundances of neon and oxygen. The results are made possible by a new data analysis method that robustly identifies rare elements in the measured ion spectra. The method is also applied to Ulysses/SWICS data, which confirms the ACE observations and extends our view of solar wind neon into the three-dimensional heliosphere.
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