B. Heber Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Germany J.B. Blake The Aerosspace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 90009, USA G. Wibberenz, V. Bothmer, Horst Kunow Inst. für Exp. und Angew. Physik, Universität Kiel, Ohlshausenstr. 40-60, 24118 Kiel, Germany M.S. Potgieter and R.A. Burger Space Research Unit, School of Physics, Potchefstroom University for CHE, 2520 Potchefstroom, South Africa
In the 1950's Simpson and coworkers showed that recurrent cosmic ray
variations, as they were first observed by Forbush, could be attributed
to dynamic phenomena in the interplanetary medium. Since measurements
of space probe in the interplanetary space became available it has been
known that associated with the occurrence of recurrent fast and slow
solar wind streams, interacting which each, other recurrent variations
in the cosmic ray nuclei flux are observed. As pointed out recently by
Jokipii and co workers recurrent modulation for positively and
negatively charged particles may be different. In the time interval
extending from July 1992 to July 1994, Ulysses on it's journey to high
heliographic latitudes registered ~20 stable and long-lasting
Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs). In this work we use data from
the Cosmic Ray and Solar Particle Investigation Kiel Electron Telescope
(COSPIN/KET) instrument on board Ulysses to study the recurrent
variation of 2.5~GV electrons and protons.
We find that 1) electrons are periodically modulated, 2) the
periodicity of ~29 is longer than the period of ~26 days for protons,
and 3) the amplitude is generally larger than the one observed for
protons.