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Published February 1, 1981 | Published
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The isotopic composition of solar flare accelerated magnesium

Abstract

We report observations of energetic solar particles from the 1978 September 23 solar flare in which the three stable isotopes of magnesium are clearly resolved with a mass resolution of 0.23 amu. We find ^(25)Mg/^(24)Mg = 0.14 (+0.05, -0.02) and ^(26)Mg/^(24)Mg = 0.15 (+0.04, -0.03) in the energy interval 12-36 MeV per nucleon. These observations are consistent with terrestrial magnesium isotopic abundances.

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© 1981 The American Astronomical Society. Received 1980 September 8; accepted 1980 October 24. W. E. Althouse, A. C. Cummings, and T. L. Garrard made significant contributions to the design and development of the HIST instrument. This work was supported in part by NASA under contract NAS5-20721 and grant NGR 05-002-160.

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