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Current Sheet Evolution in the Aftermath of a CME Event
Raymond, J. C.; Bemporad, A.; Poletto, G. +4 more
We report on SOHO UVCS observations of the coronal restructuring following a coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2002 November 26, at the time of a SOHO-Ulysses quadrature campaign. Starting about 1.5 hr after a CME in the northwest quadrant, UVCS began taking spectra at 1.7 Rsolar, covering emission from both cool and hot plasma. Observatio…
On the Rates of Coronal Mass Ejections: Remote Solar and In Situ Observations
Cane, H. V.; Gopalswamy, N.; Richardson, I. G. +2 more
We compare the rates of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as inferred from remote solar observations and interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs) as inferred from in situ observations at both 1 AU and Ulysses from 1996 through 2004. We also distinguish between those ICMEs that contain a magnetic cloud (MC) and those that do not. While the rates of CMEs and ICMEs t…
Petschek-Type Reconnection Exhausts in the Solar Wind Well beyond 1 AU: Ulysses
McComas, D. J.; Forsyth, R. J.; Gosling, J. T. +2 more
We have identified 91 Petschek-type exhausts associated with local, quasi-stationary magnetic reconnection in the solar wind in plasma and magnetic field data from the Ulysses spacecraft obtained over a wide range of heliocentric distances (1.4-5.4 AU) and latitudes (S79°-N65°). The characteristic signature of an exhaust was a brief (minutes) inte…
Sources of the Solar Wind at Ulysses during 1990-2006
Sheeley, N. R., Jr.; Wang, Y. -M.
The Ulysses spacecraft is now well into its third polar orbit around the Sun. Using stackplot displays, we summarize the wind speeds and interplanetary sector polarities recorded by Ulysses since its launch in 1990 and relate the observed patterns to the global evolution of open magnetic regions (coronal holes) over the solar cycle. We verify that…
The Latitudinal Excursion of Coronal Magnetic Field Lines in Response to Differential Rotation: MHD Simulations
Riley, Pete; Linker, Jon A.; Mikić, Zoran +1 more
Solar energetic particles, which are believed to originate from corotating interacting regions (CIRs) at low heliographic latitude, were observed by the Ulysses spacecraft even as it passed over the Sun's poles. One interpretation of this result is that high-latitude field lines intercepted by Ulysses connect to low-latitude CIRs at much larger he…
Solar Wind Electric Fields in the Ion Cyclotron Frequency Range
Bale, S. D.; Horbury, T. S.; Reme, H. +2 more
Measurements of fluctuations of electric fields in the frequency range from a fraction of 1 to 12.5 Hz are presented and corrected for the Lorentz transformation of magnetic fluctuations to give the electric fields in the plasma frame. The electric fields are large enough to provide the dominant force on the ions of the solar wind in the region ne…
Small-Scale Anisotropy and Intermittence in High- and Low-Latitude Solar Wind
Velli, M.; Biferale, L.; Bigazzi, A. +1 more
We study low- and high-latitude fast solar wind data from the Ulysses spacecraft from 1992 to 1994 using for the first time a systematic method to analyze the anisotropic content of the magnetic field fluctuations beyond second-order correlation functions. We investigate all available frequencies, 1-10-6 Hz, for both high- and low-latit…