HR: 17:20h
AN: SH54B-05 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Formation of charge states of heavy ions in SEP events
AU: * Kartavykh, J Y
EM: julia.jarc@ mail.ioffe.ru
AF: Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, 26 ,Polytekhnicheskaya, St-Petersburg, 194021, Russian Federation
AU: Kocharov, L
EM: Kocharov@utu.fi
AF: NOAA Space Environment Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AB: One can divide the formation of charge states of heavy ions in SEP events into two stages - formation of charge states during ion acceleration and their transformation due to coronal and interplanetary propagation. At the first stage the charge states of ions are formed as a result of competition of ionization and recombination processes, with possible charge-dependent acceleration. If ions were moving with a constant speed through a plasma for infinitely long time, the ionic charge of energetic ions would asymptotically reach an upper limit, the equilibrium mean charge, so that the mean charge of accelerated ions is between its thermal and equilibrium value. Coronal and interplanetary propagation can modify the charge spectra; coronal propagation by additional stripping after acceleration in a sufficiently dense environment, interplanetary propagation due to adiabatic deceleration in the expanding solar wind by shifting the charge spectra towards lower energies. The absolute value of this shift depends on the mean free path of energetic ions in interplanetary space that can be derived from the observed intensity-time profiles and anisotropies. In this paper we review recent achievements in the modeling of the charge-consistent acceleration and transport of solar ions as applied to the ionic charge states of iron.
DE: 7514 Energetic particles (2114)
DE: 7519 Flares
DE: 7599 General or miscellaneous
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting