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Mogro-Campero, A.

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NASA NTRS1972

The preferential acceleration of heavy nuclei in solar flares.

A two-stage model is proposed for the mechanism of heavy nuclei (Z greater than 8) accelerated in solar flares. In the first stage, fully stripped ions are first accelerated to suprathermal energies. In the second stage, a fraction of these ions are Fermi-accelerated to higher energies. Transport to the Fermi-acceleration region involves electron pickup, while injection into Fermi acceleration is rigidity dependent. The degree of enhancement of the abundance of heavy nuclei may be expected to vary for each individual flare.

Cartwright, B. G.↗
NASA NTRS1972

Geomagnetically trapped carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen nuclei.

Results of measurements carried out with the University of Chicago nuclear composition telescope on the Ogo 5 satellite, establishing the presence of 13- to 33-MeV/nucleon geomagnetically trapped C and O nuclei, with some evidence for N nuclei. These trapped nuclei were found at L less than or equal to 5 and near the geomagnetic equator. The data cover the period from Mar. 3, 1968, to Dec. 31, 1969. The distribution of CNO flux as a function of L is given. No change in the intensity of the average trapped CNO flux was detected by comparing data for 1968 and 1969. The results reported set a new value for the observed high energy limit of trapping as described by the critical adiabaticity parameter. The penetration of solar flare CNO up to L = 4 was observed twice in 1968, in disagreement with Stormer theory predictions. The effects of these results on some models for the origin of the trapped radiation are discussed.

Mogro-Campero, A.↗
NASA NTRS1972

Enrichment of very heavy nuclei in the composition of solar accelerated particles.

Measurement of the abundances of the nuclei C, N, O, Ne, Mg, Si, Ar, and Ca and the group Cr-Co relative to oxygen from seven solar energetic-particle events in the energy range from about 14 to 61 MeV per nucleon with a solid-state detector telescope on the OGO-5 satellite, 1968-1971. The differential energy spectra of O (14 to 29 MeV per nucleon) and Cr-Co (3 to 61 MeV per nucleon) have a spectral index of about (-3) for a power law in kinetic energy. The relative abundances of C, N, O, and Ne are in excellent agreement with emulsion studies. However, when compared with the solar photospheric and coronal abundances, the OGO-5 measurements show a large enhancement of relative abundances beginning with Si, and extending to the Cr-Co group. The enhancement over the solar and universal abundances is in rough agreement with the composition of the galactic cosmic radiation.

Mogro-Campero, A.↗