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We study event-to-event variations in the abundance enhancements of the elements He through Pb for Fe-rich impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events, and their relationship with properties of associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares. Using a least-squares procedure we fit the power-law enhancement of element abundances as a function of their mass-to-charge ratio A/Q to determine both the power and the coronal temperature (which determines Q) in each of 111 impulsive SEP events identified previously. Individual SEP events with the steepest element enhancements, e.g. ∼ (A/Q)6, tend to be smaller, lower-fluence events with steeper energy spectra that are associated with B- and C-class X-ray flares, with cooler (∼ 2.5 MK) coronal plasma, and with narrow (< 100∘), slower (< 700 km s−1) CMEs. On the other hand, higher-fluence SEP events have flatter energy spectra, less-dramatic heavy-element enhancements, e.g. ∼ (A/Q)3, and come from somewhat hotter coronal plasma (∼ 3.2 MK) associated with C-, M-, and even X-class X-ray flares and with wider CMEs. Enhancements in 3He/4He are uncorrelated with those in heavy elements. However, events with 3He/4He≥0.1 are even more strongly associated with narrow, slow CMEs, with cooler coronal plasma, and with B- and C-class X-ray flares than are other Fe-rich impulsive SEP events with smaller enhancements of 3He.
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S.K. and E.C. were funded by AFOSR Task 2301RDZ4. We thank Alan G. Ling for preparing the X-ray fluences for our events.
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Reames, D.V., Cliver, E.W. & Kahler, S.W. Variations in Abundance Enhancements in Impulsive Solar Energetic-Particle Events and Related CMEs and Flares. Sol Phys 289, 4675–4689 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-014-0589-4
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