A study of the magnetic helicity during eight HELIOS-observed solar proton events |
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| Authors: | J A Otaola J F Valdés-Galicia |
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| Institution: | (1) Departamento Fisica Espacial, Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Codigo, México |
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| Abstract: | We have studied the influence of the magnetic helicity on solar particle propagation using the IMF data observed by the HELIOS spacecraft in the range 0.31–0.95 AU, during eight solar proton events. For this, we have derived power and helicity spectra of the turbulence of the magnetic field during the time of the events. These are used to compute the particle pitch-angle scattering coefficients according to the quasi-linear theory (QLT) treatment of particle propagation in turbulent magnetic fields. The results show that in all the cases the helicity effects are negligible and the particle's mean free paths deduced from the pitch-angle diffusion coefficients are the same regardless of whether or not helicity effects are included in the calculations. The computed mean free paths are quite different in each case.Deceased 10 April, 1995. |
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