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Figure 1: Solar Wind Relative Abundances to Photospheric
Abundances as a Function of First Ionization Potential (FIP).
Note that the vaiability for elements with FIPs less sthan 10 eV
is significantly larger than that for the higher FIP elements.
The AMPTE data that are for coronal hole flows show a smaller
overabundance below 10 eV than the other measurements.
Figure 2: O/Ne as a function of Ne/Mg for a variety of coronal
structures. Neon and magnesium are chosen because they are
representative of high and low FIP elements. The open circles
are spectroscopic determinations for various structures and
events in the photosphere. Determinations from SWICS, AMPTE, and
the ICI are also shown. There is a good deal of scatter in the
data, however the individual determinations tend to cluster about
either the photosphere or coronal (SEP) values. References for
the data shown are given below. The following abreviations have
been used: ``SBC'' for Sector Boundary Crossing, ``Cloud'' for
Magnetic Cloud, ``CME'' for Coronal Mass Ejection and ``BDS'' for
Bi-Directional Streaming Events.
Table 1. Average Abundances
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Element FIP (eV) Photo- ICI
SWICS Lunar SEP
Galactic
sphere (Average Foils Cosmic
Solar
Rays
Wind) (Average
Solar
Wind)
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H 13.6 1175 - - - 1170 -
118 90
He 24.6115
9 75
20
- 75 55
3 -
He 24.6 - 0.037
0.004
- 0.032
0.003 - -
C 11.3 0.43
0.04 - 0.62
0.10
- 0.47
0.014 0.81
0.08
N 14.5 0.132
0.013 - - - 0.128
0.004 .049
0.018
O 13.6 1 1 1 1 1 1
Ne 21.6 0.144
0.038 0.17
0.02
0.10-
0.12
0.139 0.151
0.005 0.11
0.02
Mg 7.6 0.045
0.005 - 0.13
0.02
- 0.203
0.008 0.19
0.01
Si 8.2 0.042
0.005 0.12
0.04
0.18
0.02
- 0.155
0.007 0.19
0.01
S 10.4 0.019
0.003 - 0.016
0.007
- 0.036
0.001 0.022
0.003
Ar 15.8 0.004
0.001 - - 0.004
0.001 0.0033
0.0005 0.0043
0.0016
Fe 7.9 0.055
0.004 0.19
0.01
0.12
0.014
- 0.155
0.015 0.28
0.01
1. Anders and Grevesse (1989) 2. Ogilvie et al. (1989) 3. Bochsler et al. (1985) 4. Coplan et al. (1984) 5. Bochsler et al. (1986) 6. Bochsler et al. (1989) 7. Schmidt et al. (1988) 8. von Steiger et al. (1992) 9. Geiss et al. (1994) 10. Galvin et al. (1993) 11. Shafer et al. (1993) 12. Ipavich et al. (1992) 13. Geiss et al. (1972) 14. Reames (1992) 15. Ferrando (1994)
Table 2. Abundances from Various Solar Structures
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ICI
AMPTE
SEP
Skylab Spectroscopy SMM
Spectroscopy
Element FIP (eV) Photosphere
CME SBC Coronal Coronal CIR**Events Polar Flares Flares
Hole Hole Coronal Active
Hole
Regions
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H 13.6 1175
118 - - - - 1810
120 - - -
He 24.6 115
9 52 65 48 45
5 159
10 - - -
He 24.6 - - - - - - - - -
C 11.3 0.43
0.04 *** *** **** 0.53
0.013 0.89
0.036 - - -
N 14.5 0.132
0.013 - - - - 0.14
0.014 - - -
O 13.6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Ne 21.6 0.144
0.038 0.28 0.17 0.14 - 0.17
0.016 0.14* 0.13-0.21 0.14, 0.32
Mg 7.6 0.045
0.005 0.12 0.22 0.08 0.106
0.01 0.14
0.014 0.090-0.11* 0.079-0.54 0.20, 0.21
Si 8.2 0.042
0.005 0.10 0.09 0.05 0.103
0.011 0.10
0.012 - - 0.16, 0.14
S 10.4 0.019
0.003 - - - 0.032
0.009 0.05
0.008 - - 0.036, 0.044
Ar 15.8 0.004
0.001 - - - - - - - -
Fe 7.9 0.055
0.004 - - - 0.124
0.004 0.097
0.011 - - 0.156, 0.139
1. Anders and Grevesse (1989) 2. Ogilvie et al. (1992) 3. Gloeckler et al. (1986) 4. Reames (1992) 5. Feldman and Widing (1993) 6. Widing and Feldman (1994) 7. Schmelz (1993) * Based on the assumed value of Ne/O of 0.14 ** Corotating Interaction Regions *** Constrained to 0.45 **** Constrained to 0.55
Table 3. Abundances of Pickup Ions at 5 AU Relative
to He
Data from Gloeckler and Geiss (1994)
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Element Pickup Ion Flux Interstellar Solar System
Abundances Abundances
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H 0.8
0.2 6.2
0.7 10.3
He 1 1 1
C
0.4
0.8
3.7
x 10
x 10
x 10
N 0.8 x 10
0.5 x 10-3 1.1 x 10
O 5.7 x 10
3.5 x 10
8.8 x 10
Ne 1.2 x 10
1.0 x 10
1.2 x 10
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Figure 2. O/Ne as a function of Ne/Mg for a variety of coronal structures. Neon and magnesium are chosen because they are representative of high and low FIP elements. The open circles are spectroscopic determinations for various structures and events in the photosphere. Determinations from SWICS, AMPTE, and the ICI are also shown. There is a good deal of scatter in the data, however the individual determinations tend to cluster about either the photosphere or coronal (SEP) values. References for the data shown are given below. The following abreviations have been used: ``SBC'' for Sector Boundary Crossing, ``Cloud'' for Magnetic Cloud, ``CME'' for Coronal Mass Ejection and ``BDS'' for Bi-Directional Streaming Events. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Structure Instrument Reference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solar Wind SWICS Geiss et al. (1994) Open Field Skylab Spectroscopy Widing and Feldman (1994) Prominence Skylab Spectroscopy Widing et al. (1986), id. (1989) Coronal Hole AMPTE Gloeckler et al. (1986) Photosphere Spectroscopy Anders and Grevesse (1989) Corona SEP Reames (1992) Impulsive Flare Skylab Spectroscopy Feldman and Widing (1990) Post Flare Limb Skylab Spectroscopy Widing and Feldman (1994) SBC, Cloud, CME, BDS ICI Ogilvie et al. (1992) ICI Average ICI Coplan et al. (1990) Limb Active Regions Skylab Spectroscopy Widing and Feldman (1994), id. (1989) Flare Decays Skylab Spectroscopy Widing and Feldman (1994), id.(1989) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------