Reverse Shock Acceleration of Electrons and Protons at Mid-Heliolatitudes From 5.3--3.8 AU

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Apr 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995ssrv...72..303s&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, Volume 72, Issue 1-2, pp. 303-308

Physics

44

Heliosphere, Energetic Particles, Shock Acceleration, Reverse Shocks

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We examine the intensity, anisotropy and energy spectrum of 480 966 keV protons and 38 315 keV electrons observed by the HI-SCALE instrument on Ulysses associated with Corotating Interaction Regions (CIR) from mid-1992 to early 1994. The particle events are most clearly ordered by the reverse shocks bounding the CIRs. The bulk of the ion fluxes appear either straddling, or with their maximum intensity following, the reverse shock. The electron intensities rise sharply to their maximum upon the passage of the reverse shock, and are delayed with respect to the protons. We believe that following acceleration at the reverse shock the electrons re-enter the inner heliosphere and mirror, to return to the reverse shock for repeated acceleration. This process is more effective for electrons (v˜c/2) than for ions, and also favours the higher velocity electrons, which accounts for the observed spectral hardening with latitude.

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