Published June 2007 | Version public
Journal Article

Elemental Abundances of the Bulk Solar Wind: Analyses from Genesis and ACE

Abstract

Analysis of the Genesis samples is underway. Preliminary elemental abundances based on Genesis sample analyses are in good agreement with in situ-measured elemental abundances made by ACE/SWICS during the Genesis collection period. Comparison of these abundances with those of earlier solar cycles indicates that the solar wind composition is relatively stable between cycles for a given type of flow. ACE/SWICS measurements for the Genesis collection period also show a continuum in compositional variation as a function of velocity for the quasi-stationary flow that defies the simple binning of samples into their sources of coronal hole (CH) and interstream (IS).

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© 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Received: 8 February 2007; Accepted: 15 May 2007; Published online: 6 July 2007. The authors thank the NASA Discovery Program for their support of Genesis.

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