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- Title
<sup>3</sup>He-Rich Solar Energetic Particle Events with No Measurable <sup>4</sup>He Intensity Increases.
- Authors
Ho, George C.; Mason, Glenn M.; Allen, Robert C.
- Abstract
We investigated 3He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events in the current solar cycle starting in 2009 through 2017. Both "impulsive" (flare-related) 3He-rich and CME-related "gradual" events are included. In the former solar cycle, we found the number of observed 3He-rich events correlated with solar activity. The same correlation is seen again in Cycle 24. Because of the comparatively weak activity, both the occurrence of 3He-rich events and their intensities are significantly less than those from Cycle 23. Interestingly, we found in several of the 3He-rich events that there is no measurable 4He intensity increase above the instrument background. Previously, we found that there is a limit on the number of 3He ions that can be released from the Sun in an impulsive SEP event, while there is no such limit on the 4He ions (Ho, Roelof, and Mason in Astrophys. J., 621, L862, 2005). In this paper, we examine several of these 3He-rich events in detail and discuss the lack of observable 4He intensity increases and the implications for the enhancement and acceleration mechanism of this special type of SEP events.
- Subjects
SOLAR energetic particles; CORONAL mass ejections; SOLAR activity; PARTICLE acceleration; SOLAR cycle
- Publication
Solar Physics, 2019, Vol 294, Issue 3, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0038-0938
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11207-019-1420-z