george c. ho and glenn m. mason
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Energetic Electrons in 3 He Enhanced Solar Energetic Particle Events. George C. Ho and Glenn M. Mason. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 June 26th, 2008. Outline. Helium-3 Helium-4. Introduction First Discovery Classification Paradigm - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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George C. Ho and Glenn M. Mason
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723
June 26th, 2008
Energetic Electrons in Energetic Electrons in 33He Enhanced He Enhanced Solar Energetic Particle EventsSolar Energetic Particle Events
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Key: proton = neutron = electron =
Helium-3 Helium-4Relative Abundance 1 2500
•Introduction–First Discovery
–Classification Paradigm
•Energetic Electron–Timing
–Occurrence
•Fluence Analysis–Observations
–Implication
•Discussion
Outline
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Introduction
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Anglin, 1975
Discovery that small solar particle events sometimes showed enormous enrichments of 3He, without any accompanying 3H or 2H enrichments
(Garrard, Stone & Vogt, NASA SP-342, 1973; Anglin et al. 1974; Serlemitsos & Balasubrahmanyan 1975)
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Kilometric Type III Association
Reames and Stone, 1986
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Overall Picture as of Mid 1990s
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Gradual and Impulsive SEP Events
Mason et al., 1989
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ACE He Mass Resolution
Event onsets often show almost pure velocity dispersion -- but multiple events can overlap in time. These are separated in constructing fluence spectra
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Solar Cycle Dependence
ACE launchedin August ‘97
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Fraction of time with 3He present. Points are shown for individual Bartels rotations; lines show running averageover 6 rotations. Unfilled circles and dotted line: unambiguous 3He (categories 2–4); filled circles and solid line: probable 3He (categories 1 and 5) also included.
Wiedenbeck et al., Solar Wind 10
3He-rich Population
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Ultra-Heavy Particles
Mason et al., 2004
• Ultra-heavy ions ~200 times SW value
• Acceleration depends on M/Q ratio
• No satisfactory theory
Mason et al. (2004)
Coordinated Observations
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TRACE & RHESSI imagingTRACE EUV observations reveal thermal emission (~1.5 MK).
Flare loops and EUV jet observed.(21-Aug-2002 3He-rich event)
jet
Courtesy Säm Krucker, UCBerkeley
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Ionization States
•Mean Q-states of Fe increase with Energy
•At low-E - ionic charge states correspond to equilibrium Temperature
•At high-E, stripping due to acceleration and transport
Klecker et al. (2005)
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Energetic Electrons in 3He-rich Events
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Injection study of impulsive electrons
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Linghua Wang et al. 2006 SPD
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Casual Relationship
Ho et al., 2001
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Timing Analysis
Ho et al., 2003
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Scatter-free Transport
Ho et al., 2003
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Lack of Correlation
Ho et al., 2001
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Association with all Impulsive Events
Ho et al., 2001
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Fluence Analysis
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“Apparent” Anti-correlation
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Upper Limit on 3He Fluence
• Measurements above instrument thresholds
• 4He fluences range over a factor of 10,000 while the 3He fluences in the same SEP range over only a factor of 100
• 3He/4He does not order the data
• A strict upper limit on the 3He fluence
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Fluence Distributions
Ho, Roelof, Mason., 2005
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20Ne vs. 4He Fluences
Ho, Roelof, Mason., 2005
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Class-1 Events:• power law or double power law form
• above ~1 MeV/n all spectra similar
•3He is power law or double power law
Mason et al., 2002
Spectral Form-Class I
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• single power law for all species except 3He
• 3He harder than others below ~1 MeV/n
• 3He:4He peaks from 1-few MeV/n
Mason et al., 2002
Spectral Form-Class I
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Class-2 Events:• 4He is power law
• 3He and Fe flatten notably at low energies (other heavy ion species not clear)
• 3He and Fe curve at different energies
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Possible synthesis:
initial 3He enrichment mechanism (Cascade MHD?)
further acceleration results in power law spectra
still further acceleration results in similar spectra for all species
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Fluence Distributions
Ho, Roelof, Mason., 2005
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Discussions
• New observations from advanced instrumentations give us new insight into this class of SEP events
• As we learned more about this class of events, we find there is more outstanding questions (personal views):– What enhancement/acceleration mechanism operate in this
remarkable class of SEP event? (Ultra-heavy ion?)– Why is the 3He presented continuously in the interplanetary
space?– What are the causal relationship between the energetic
electrons, flare, and 3He enrichment?– Why is there an apparent upper limit on the 3He fluence in the
interplanetary space? What is its implications?– Why the 3He spectral shape different from other ions?
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Discussions
• Current observations at 1 AU are hampered by transport effects as we are far from the source
• Require high resolution in-suite observation close to the source of the enrichment/acceleration
Solar Orbiter: Solar Probe + :
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Fluence Analysis
• The remarkable enrichment of the isotope 3He in solar energetic particle (SEP) events is usually described in terms of the ratio of the fluences of the two isotopes (3He/4He)
• However, only weak correlations between 3He/4He and flare properties have been found [Reames, Dennis, and Stone, ApJ., 1988]
• Strong correlation is found between the occurrence of 3He-rich SEP with energetic electrons [Reames, von Rosenvinge, and Lin, ApJ., 1985]
• However, Ho et al. [ApJ., 2001] found same association in all impulsive SEP events with energetic electrons
• Ho, Roelof, & Mason [ApJL., 2005] found during the peak of solar activity, there is an upper limited on the 3He flunence of 0.2 to 2.0 MeV/nuc.