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Small 3He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events with their anomalous abundances, markedly different from solar system, provide evidence for a unique acceleration mechanism that operates routinely near solar active regions. Although the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 R. Bucik , D. E. Innes , L. Guo , G. M. Mason , M. E. Wiedenbeck

3He-rich solar energetic particles (SEPs), showing up to a 10,000-fold abundance enhancement of rare elements like 3He or ultra-heavy nuclei, have been a puzzle for more than 50 years. One reason for the current lack of understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-03 R. Bucik

Impulsive solar energetic particle (SEP) events originate from the energy dissipation process in small solar flares. Anomalous abundances in impulsive SEP events provide an evidence on unique, yet unclear, acceleration mechanism. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 N. -H. Chen , R. Bučík , R. -S. Kim

Shock waves associated with fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) accelerate solar energetic particles (SEPs) in the long duration, gradual events that pose hazards to crewed spaceflight and near-Earth technological assets, but the source of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-26 David H. Brooks , Stephanie L. Yardley

Energetic particle populations are ubiquitous throughout the Universe. In our solar system, the most prominent sources of energetic particles are solar flares or collisionless shocks often driven by huge eruptions of magnetised plasma…

Large solar eruptive events, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), can lead to solar energetic particle (SEP) events. During these events, protons are accelerated up to several GeV and pose numerous space weather risks.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Charlotte Waterfall , Silvia Dalla , Osku Raukunen , Daniel Heynderickx , Piers Jiggens , Rami Vainio

We study solar energetic particle (SEP) events during multiple solar eruptions. The analysed sequences, on 24-26 November 2000, 9-13 April 2001, and 22-25 August 2005, consisted of halo-type coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that originated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Silja Pohjolainen , Firas Al-Hamadani , Eino Valtonen

We have statistically analyzed a set of 115 low frequency (Deca- Hectometer wavelengths range) type II and type III bursts associated with major Solar Energetic Particle (SEP: Ep > 10 MeV) events and their solar causes such as solar flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-14 P. Pappa Kalaivani , A. Shanmugaraju , O. Prakash , R. -S. Kim

We report on four large filament eruptions (FEs) from solar cycles 23 and 24 that were associated with large solar energetic particle (SEP) events and interplanetary type II radio bursts. The post-eruption arcades corresponded to mostly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Gopalswamy , P. Makela , S. Akiyama , S. Yashiro , H. Xie , N. Thakur , S. W. Kahler

In solar energetic particle (SEP) events, the power-law dependence of element abundance enhancements on their mass-to-charge ratios A/Q provides a new tool that measures the combined rigidity dependences from both acceleration and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-18 Donald V. Reames

Solar Energetic Particles (SEP) are an integral part of the physical processes related with Space Weather. We present a review for the acceleration mechanisms related to the explosive phenomena (flares and/or CMEs) inside the solar corona.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Loukas Vlahos , Anastasios Anastasiadis , Athanasios Papaioannou , Athanasios Kouloumvakos , Heinz Isliker

A statistical analysis of the relationship between solar energetic particles (SEPs) and properties of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is presented. SEP events during solar cycle 23 are selected which are associated with solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-18 M. Dierckxsens , K. Tziotziou , S. Dalla , I. Patsou , M. S. Marsh , N. B. Crosby , O. Malandraki , G. Tsiropoula

Intense solar energetic particle (SEP) events data, associated with ground level enhancements (GLEs), occurred during 1989 to 2006 have been obtained from the spectrometers on board GOES spacecraft in the energy range 10-100 MeV. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 P. K. Manoharan , G. Agalya

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) accelerated from shocks driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are one of the major causes of geomagnetic storms on Earth. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the occurrence and intensity of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michalek

We examine 3He-rich solar energetic particles (SEPs) detected on 2023 October 24-25 by Solar Orbiter at 0.47 au. The measurements revealed that heavy-ion enhancements increase irregularly with mass, peaking at S. C, and especially N, Si,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 R. Bucik , G. M. Mason , S. M. Mulay , G. C. Ho , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , J. Rodriguez-Pacheco

Small 3He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events have been commonly associated with extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) jets and narrow coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which are believed to be the signatures of magnetic reconnection involving field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Radoslav Bucik , Davina E. Innes , Glenn M. Mason , Mark E. Wiedenbeck

We study the solar energetic particle (SEP) event observed on 9 October 2021, by multiple spacecraft including Solar Orbiter (SolO). The event was associated with an M1.6 flare, a coronal mass ejection (CME) and a shock wave. During the…

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events are related to flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). This work is a new investigation of statistical relationships between SEP peak intensities - deka-MeV protons and near-relativistic electrons -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 G. Trottet , S. Samwel , K. -L. Klein , T. Dudok de Wit , R. Miteva

Metric type II solar radio bursts and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are both associated with shock fronts driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the solar corona. Recent studies of ground level enhancements (GLEs), regular large…

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events have been observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft since its launch in 2018. These events include sources from solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Onboard PSP is the IS\(\odot\)IS…