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Chanruangrith Channok,1 David Ruffolo,1
Mihir Desai,2 and Glenn Mason2
1THAILAND 2USA

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"Fe/O at IP shocks..."
Fe/O at IP shocks is depleted relative to ambient values
Larger decrease at higher energy

Spectra and abundances for Nov. 24 2001 IP shock
Why do ESP spectra roll over
at ~ 0.1 - 10 MeV/n?
 (data - see also: Gosling et al. 1981; van Nes et al. 1985)
Possible mechanisms suggested by Ellison & Ramaty (1985)
shock thickness ~ κ/u         energy is too low
drift over shock width        rollover at ~ 100 MeV/Q
finite time for shock acceleration         considered here
    (see also: Klecker et al. 1981; Lee 1983)

Finite-Time Shock Acceleration
Probability approach (like Bell 1978, Drury 1983)
Acceleration rate, r  = 1/Δt     Escape rate, e
    Time at present (age of shock), t
    Simulation parameters:
λ = λ0 (P/ MV)α so vary λ0 and α (shorter λ0 is equivalent to longer time duration)
Time  t  fixed by observations, v0 = 200 km/s in wind frame, shock angles & speeds as observed.

We solve the PDE É
Rollover energy (Ec /A)
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Event #3: λ0 = 0.24 AU, α = 0.18
Event #2: λ0 = 0.042 AU, α = 0.10
Event #1: λ0 = 4.0x10-3 AU, α = 0.07
Fe/O ratios
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É but wait Ð thereÕs more!
Key processes of interplanetary transport
Pitch-angle transport equation [DR, ApJ Õ95]

"Fitting SEP data"
Fitting SEP data
 Simultaneous fit to intensity vs. time
                                 anisotropy vs. time
 Optimal piecewise linear injection (least squares)
 Optimal scattering mean free path, λ  [Ruffolo et al. 1998]
 Optimal magnetic configuration         [Bieber et al. 2002]

Magnetic Configurations
Results of fitting GLE data
(relativistic solar protons)
Bastille Day: July 14, 2000 - magnetic bottleneck
[Bieber et al. 2002]
Easter: April 15, 2001 - full Spaceship Earth network,
1-minute timing of injection [Bieber et al. 2004]
October 22, 1989 - injection along both legs of a closed interplanetary loop [poster, this meeting]
October 28, 2003 É well, we donÕt claim to understand everything É [Bieber et al. 2005]
January 20, 2005 - possible effect of self-generated waves: nonlinear transport! [poster, this meeting]

Comparison with EM timing
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Early observations [Bryant et al. 1962]
Spectral Properties of Heavy Ions Accelerated by Interplanetary Shocks Near 1 AU

 M. I. Desai
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA


Co-Authors:
G. M. Mason, C. M. S. Cohen, R. A. Mewaldt, M. E. Wiedenbeck, J. E. Mazur, J. R. Dwyer, A. C. Cummings, E. C. Stone, R. A. Leske, R.E. Gold, E. R. Christian, S. M. Krimigis, C.W. Smith, Q. Hu, R. M. Skoug, and T. T. von Rosenvinge
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Upstream and SEP Abundances
(Desai et al. 2003  ApJ 558, 1149).
Upstream material comprises ~30% contribution from impulsive flares, and ~70% from large gradual SEPs

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Fe/O Ratio at shock versus Fe/O ratio upstream (Desai et al. 2003 ApJ vol. 558, 1149)
3. Particle acceleration in space:
Shock acceleration

Fundamental mechanism of shock acceleration
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Application to an interplanetary shock: 
What if e, r vary with time?
Physical characteristics of a shock change greatly as it moves out from the Sun
Observations: high energy particles are accelerated only when shock is near the Sun
Near Sun: tacc (=1/r) was low, t /tacc was high, spectrum does not roll over until high energy (rollover mechanism not clear)
Interplanetary space: tacc greatly increased
Effectively decouple SEP, ESP acceleration

r, e  varying - ODE model
More model parameters ...
Numerical Results
Four Lines of Work: