ULYSSES high-latitude observations of ions accelerated by co-rotating interaction regions

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Jun 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.1113s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 12, p. 1113-1116

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Ecliptic, Energetic Particles, Heliosphere, Ions, Particle Acceleration, Polar Regions, Solar Rotation, Solar Wind, Coronal Holes, Corotation, Magnetometers, Solar Magnetic Field, Spaceborne Telescopes, Spectral Signatures, Ulysses Mission

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We present observations of energetic ions (E approximately 1 MeV) from the Ulysses spacecraft during its first pass from the ecliptic plane to the southern high-latitude regions of the heliosphere. At latitudes less than approximately 13 deg S Ulysses was completely immersed in the heliomagnetic streamer belt, and observed a approximately 1 MeV proton intensity which showed little evidence of a periodic structure. Between approximately 13 deg S and approximately 29 deg S Ulysses observed one dominant recurrent co-rotating interaction region, its reverse shocks being mainly responsible for accelerating the approximately 1 MeV protons. At approximately 29 deg S the spacecraft left this region and entered the solar wind flow from the polar coronal hole. From approximately 29 deg up to approximately 45 deg S, reverse shocks from this and other interaction regions were still being observed. Accelerated energetic ions, with proton-to-alpha ratio signatures consistent with having been accelerated by the reverse shocks of these co-rotating interacting regions, were still being observed up to latitudes of approximately 50 deg S.

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