D. Maia, M. Pick Observatoire Paris, Meudon, FRANCE S.E. Hawkins, E.C. Roelof Johns Hopkins University/APL, Laurel, MD, USA
We investigate the solar origin and propagation of well collimated
energetic electron events measured in situ by the EPAM experiment on
the ACE spacecraft.
EPAM measures electrons in the energy of range
of from 40 to 300 keV over a wide range look directions and with better
than 1 minute time resolution. During the events in our study, these
particles are strongly collimated along the magnetic field. As such,
these near-relativistic (beta=0.4-0.7) particles tend to be scatter
free and their observed arrival at ACE provides a good estimate of the
release time back to the Sun. We combine these observations with fast
imaging of the solar corona in the meter wave domain provided by the
Nancay radioheliograph and dynamic spectral information from the WAVES
experiment on the WIND spacecraft. Together, this complement of
observations of solar energetic particles events provides insight into
the onset times and sites of particle acceleration in the low corona.
Using coronagraphic observations from the LASCO experiment on SOHO we
are able to follow the dynamical behavior of the low corona during the
events.