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Published September 1993 | Submitted
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Determining the charge states of solar energetic ions during large geomagnetic storms

Abstract

We give a progress report on a new method of measuring the mean ionic charge states of solar energetic particles (SEPs) and apply this method to oxygen ions at energies of ∼10 MeV/nucleon. We compare simultaneous flux measurements inside and outside the magnetosphere to determine the geomagnetic transmission and use this result to find the corresponding mean ionic charge state. The key to this method is to determine the dependence of the geomagnetic transmission function on the mean ionic charge state of the ions. We report here the results of a new technique to calculate the geomagnetic transmission function, which attempts to account for the cutoff suppression caused by the geomagnetic activity which often accompanies SEP events.

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© 1993 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier. This work has been carried out as an approved activity of the US/USSR Joint Working Group on Solar-Terrestrial Physics. We thank D. I. Kozlov for the Cosmos flights. This work is supported in part by NASA contracts NAG8-678, NAG5-706, W-17,358; NASA grants NAG5-728, NGR 05-002-160, NAGW-1990; NSF grant ATM-90-23414; the National Research Council Research Associate Program; and DARA grant 50-OS-9001.

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