SOLAR-WIND COMPOSITION MEASUREMENTS BY THE ULYSSES SWICS EXPERIMENT DURING TRANSIENT SOLAR-WIND FLOWS

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作者
GALVIN, AB
GLOECKLER, G
IPAVICH, FM
SHAFER, CM
GEISS, J
OGILVIE, K
机构
[1] UNIV BERN, INST PHYS, CH-3012 BERN, SWITZERLAND
[2] GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CTR, GREENBELT, MD 20770 USA
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ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH-SERIES | 1993年 / 13卷 / 06期
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10.1016/0273-1177(93)90393-P
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V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
For the March/April 1991 time period, the alpha/proton abundance ratio, the proton kinetic temperature and speed distributions, and the relative abundance of O+7 to O+6 is determined over each 13-minute duty cycle of the Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) experiment on Ulysses. The ratio O+7/O+6 (as a relative measure of ionization temperature) is shown to be useful in identifying possible coronal mass ejection (CME) events. We report measurements of silicon/oxygen abundance ratios and silicon and oxygen charge state distributions in the solar wind during a CME event and compare these compositions to a ''normal'' solar wind time period.
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