Post-launch analysis of data from the High Energy Astrophysical Observatory Heavy Nuclei Experiment (HEAO-C3)

The Final Report on the continuing analysis of data from the Heavy Nuclei Experiment (HNE), flown on the HEAO-3 mission, is presented. The HNE was designed to measure the elemental abundances of relativistic cosmic ray nuclei covering the charge range 17 is less than or equal to Z is less than or equal to 130. The result of these measurements is significant to the study of nucleosynthesis, the origin, acceleration, and propagation of cosmic ray nuclei, and the properties of the interstellar medium.