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Gary et al. 2002
Gary, S.P., Goldstein, B.E. and Neugebauer, M. (2002). Signatures of wave-ion interactions in the solar wind: Ulysses observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 107: doi: 10.1029/2001JA000269. issn: 0148-0227.

Theory and simulations predict that resonant wave-particle scattering by enhanced magnetic fluctuations yields characteristic signatures in properties of solar wind ions. Here Ulysses/Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun (SWOOPS) instrument measurements of protons and alpha particles are examined to seek three types of these signatures: (1) a statistical constraint on the proton temperature anisotropy imposed by the electromagnetic proton cyclotron instability; (2) a correlation between the alpha anisotropy and the alpha/proton relative flow speed driven by electromagnetic alpha/proton instabilities; and (3) relationships among the proton anisotropy, the alpha anisotropy, and the alpha/proton speed induced by the cascade of long-wavelength Alfv¿n fluctuations to ion cyclotron resonances at shorter wavelengths. No signatures of alpha/proton instabilities are found. However, the first example of the proton anisotropy constraint in the slow solar wind is demonstrated, and a theoretical prediction for Alfv¿n/cyclotron wave acceleration in the fast wind is similar to a statistical lower bound observed on the alpha/proton speed.

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Keywords
Interplanetary Physics, Solar wind plasma, Interplanetary Physics, Plasma waves and turbulence, Space Plasma Physics, Wave/particle interactions
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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