Coronal mass ejections (CME's) are thought to result from the loss of stability within a magnetically confined coronal structure leading to its radial expansion into interplanetary space. As the CME expands into the corona current sheets will form between the expanding CME and surrounding field lines in the ambient wind. This configuration may lead to reconnection between the CME and adjacemt field lines. Such reconnection may produce double ion beams as has been observed in the terrrestrial magnetosphere. We examine all 24 distinct signatures of CME's observed by Ulysses during the in-ecliptic portion of the mission. In 5 of these 24 cases the ion spectra were not clear and thus the presence of double ion beams could not be determined. In 13 of the remaining 19 CME's double ion beams were found on the leading and/or trailing edge of the CME but not in the interior of the CME. In 3 of the CME's double ion beams were found throughout the CME while in the remaining 3 CME's double ion beams were not present near or just inside of the CME. In contrast in a control sample of 19 randomly chosen intervals, double ion beams were present at the leading and/or trailing edges of the random intervals in only 3 of the 19 cases. There appears to be no correlation between probability of occurrence of double ion beams and a magnetic cloud or non-cloud configuration of the CME and no correlation between the presence of the double ion beams at the edges of the CME and the CME being a fast or slow CME.


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    Ulysses observations of double ion beams associated with coronal mass ejections


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    1996-01-01



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