Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsh33a1077l&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SH33A-1077
Physics
2102 Corotating Streams, 2114 Energetic Particles (7514), 2139 Interplanetary Shocks, 2164 Solar Wind Plasma
Scientific paper
An intense solar energetic particle (SEP) event was detected in September 2004 by near-Earth spacecraft and by Ulysses at 5.4 AU. The characteristics of the intensity and anisotropy time profiles at both heliospheric locations were determined by the presence of a corotating low-density, low-speed, and low-proton-beta (βp) solar wind stream. This low-βp stream was followed by a faster and denser solar wind resulting in the formation of a strong compression region. The bulk part of SEPs at 1 AU was observed in the downstream region of this compression region. Only those SEPs either able to leak from behind the compression region or accelerated by the associated CME-driven shock as it penetrated into the low-βp region, or both, were observed prior to the main component of the SEP event. Anisotropic ion intensity enhancements observed upstream of this shock most likely resulted from both particle acceleration in a corrugated shock surface and particle propagation within the low-βp region. The particle event at Ulysses was exceptional in terms of the large and long-lasting (>4 days) field-aligned anisotropies. These large anisotropies resulted from both the leakage of energetic particles from behind the compression region and their propagation within the low-βp region. We propose a scenario that explains the characteristics of the SEP event at both 1 AU and Ulysses. The effects that large-scale interplanetary structures have on the energetic particle transport determine the properties of the event at both spacecraft by modifying the time history of both particle intensities and anisotropies. These effects must be carefully considered by models of energetic particle transport in the heliosphere.
Decker Robert B.
Lanzerotti Louis J.
Lario D. D.
Malandraki Olga E.
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