Effects of corotating interaction regions on ULYSSES high energy particles

摘要

Since June 1992 the Kiel Electron Telescope on board ULYSSES measures variations of more than 10% in the fluxes of high energy H and He showing a periodicity of about 26 days in coincidence with the passage of corotating interaction regions. (CIR). At low energies MeV protons are accelerated at the shocks of the CIRs. These effects are observed up to high southern latitudes, where the signature of a CIR is no longer visible in plasma or magnetic field data. After passing over the south polar cap ULYSSES has now returned to the solar equator and climbs up to the north pole. In this paper we study the relative intensity variations with latitude and the latitude dependence at solar distances smaller than ever studied before.