Effect of Wave Generation on Evolution of Elemental Abundances of Solar Energetic Particles from Flares and Interplanetary Shocks

Chee K. Ng1,2, and Donald V. Reames2

1 Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

2 Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

The amplification of interplanetary Alfven waves by the passage of energetic protons accelerated in flares and traveling interplanetary shocks has profound effect on the evolution of the elemental abundances of solar energetic particles at the earth's orbit. We present a model of coupled wave-particle evolution which includes focusing, pitch-angle scattering, solar-wind convection, adiabatic deceleration, wave transport and amplification by streaming protons. A comparison is made of the model results for (a) a fixed source on the sun and (b) a source associated with a traveling interplanetary shock.