Solar wind stream interaction regions throughout the heliosphere

IG Richardson - Living reviews in solar physics, 2018 - Springer
This paper focuses on the interactions between the fast solar wind from coronal holes and
the intervening slower solar wind, leading to the creation of stream interaction regions that …

Particle acceleration at the Sun and in the heliosphere

DV Reames - Space Science Reviews, 1999 - Springer
Energetic particles are accelerated in rich profusion at sites throughout the heliosphere.
They come from solar flares in the low corona, from shock waves driven outward by coronal …

Energetic particles and corotating interaction regions in the solar wind

IG Richardson - Space Science Reviews, 2004 - Springer
This paper reviews three important effects on energetic particles of corotating interaction
regions (CIRs) in the solar wind that are formed at the leading edges of high-speed solar …

Sources of geomagnetic activity over the solar cycle: Relative importance of coronal mass ejections, high‐speed streams, and slow solar wind

IG Richardson, EW Cliver… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We assess the contribution of various types of solar wind structures (coronal mass ejections
(CMEs), high‐speed streams, and slow solar wind) to averages of the aa geomagnetic …

Coronal abundances determined from energetic particles

DV Reames - Advances in Space Research, 1995 - Elsevier
Solar energetic particles (SEPs) provide a measurement of coronal element abundances
that is highly independent of the ionization states and temperature of the ions in the source …

The suprathermal seed population for corotating interaction region ions at 1 AU deduced from composition and spectra of H+, He++, and He+ observed on Wind

K Chotoo, NA Schwadron, GM Mason… - Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We have measured H+, He++, and He+ distribution functions over the solar wind through the
suprathermal energy range during two corotating interaction region (CIR) events observed …

Composition of anomalous cosmic rays and other heliospheric ions

AC Cummings, EC Stone… - The Astrophysical …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Interstellar pickup ions accelerated by the termination shock of the solar wind dominate the
anomalous cosmic-ray (ACR) intensities observed by the Voyager spacecraft in the outer …

Abundances and energy spectra of corotating interaction region heavy ions observed during solar cycle 23

GM Mason, RA Leske, MI Desai… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Using instruments on the ACE spacecraft, we surveyed the heavy-ion spectra and
composition over the range He-Fe for 41 corotating interaction regions (CIRs) during 1998 …

Perpendicular transport of low-energy corotating interaction region-associated nuclei

JR Dwyer, GM Mason, JE Mazur… - The Astrophysical …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
We present compelling observational evidence for substantial transport of energetic charged
particles across the local average magnetic field. Using data from the STEP/EPACT …

Solar energetic particles: Sampling coronal abundances

DV Reames - Space Science Reviews, 1998 - Springer
In the large solar energetic particle (SEP) events, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) drive
shock waves out through the corona that accelerate elements of the ambient material to MeV …