Abstract 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 (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.
Solar wind composition measurements by the Ulysses SWICS experiment during transient solar wind flows
Advances in Space Research ; 13 , 6 ; 75-78
1993-01-01
4 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Kinetic properties of heavy solar wind ions from Ulysses-SWICS
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