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Published August 1, 1981 | Published
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Cosmic-Ray Abundances of Elements with Atomic Number 26 ≤ Z ≤ 40 Measured on HEAO-3

Abstract

Individual elements in the cosmic radiation of even atomic number (Z) in the interval 26 ≤ Z ≤ 40 have been resolved and their relative abundances measured. The results are inconsistent with a cosmic-ray source whose composition in this charge interval is dominated by r-process nucleosynthes1s. The ratios of cosmic-ray source abundances to solar system abundances in this interval follow the same general correlation with first ionization potential as for the lighter elements although there are deviations in detail.

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© 1981 American Astronomical Society. Provided by the NASA Astrophysics Data System. Received 1981 March 9; accepted 1981 April 16. We thank T. Aufrance, B. Gauld, D. Grossman, K. Krombel, and D. Mitchell for assistance in programming for data analysis; R. N. F. Walker for development of the propagation code, and S. H. Margolis and K. L. Hainebach for the program to evaluate cross sections for the propagation code. The research was supported in part by NASA under contracts NAS8- 27976,77,78 and grants NGR 05-002-160, 24-005-050, and 26-008-001. Space Radiation Laboratory SRL ID #: 1981-14.

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