Oxygen 16 to oxygen 18 abundance ratio in the solar wind observed by Wind/MASS

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作者
Collier, MR [1 ]
Hamilton, DC
Gloeckler, G
Ho, G
Bochsler, P
Bodmer, R
Sheldon, R
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[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Extraterr Phys Lab, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[2] Univ Bern, Inst Phys, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
[3] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS | 1998年 / 103卷 / A1期
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10.1029/97JA02245
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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Measurements of the O-16 and O-18 distribution functions in the solar wind at low to average solar wind speeds from the MASS instrument on the wind spacecraft are reported. The O-16/O-18 density ratio is 450 +/- 130, a value consistent with terrestrial, solar photospheric, solar energetic particle, and galactic cosmic ray O-16/O-18 isotopic ratios. This study constitutes the first reported spacecraft measurement of the isotope O in the core solar wind and may represent the best determination of the solar O-16/O-18 density ratio to date.
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